The development on Wednesday has been hailed as historic by Italy.
The crimes for which they were convicted include the 1980 killing of a Carabinieri paramilitary general and the kidnapping of a judge in the same year. This file handout photograph released by her family on January 1, 2007, shows former member of Italy s disbanded Red Brigades group Marina Petrella. France on April 28 has detained seven former members of left-wing Italian extremist group the Red Brigades who have long been sought by Rome in what was billed as a diplomatic olive branch by President Emmanuel Macron Adriano Ascoli, pictured above, who was arrested with Luigi Fuccini and Giuliano Pinori for suspected subversive activity linked to the Red Brigades terrorist group, in a pre-dawn raid in Pisa, northern Italy, Monday, June 6, 2005 (File image)