Marina Petrella
Marina Petrella | |
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Born | Marina Petrella 23 August 1954 |
Occupation | terrorist (fugitive) |
Organization | Red Brigades |
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Marina Petrella (born in Roma, 23 August 1954) is a former member of the terrorist Italian left wing group the Red Brigades.[1] She was convicted to life sentence for murder.
Biography[]
A former school teacher in the middle of the 1970s she joined a terrorist group called the Brigate Rosse. Together with her husband, , she was arrested twice, but was never sent to jail because a verdict was not reached in time. In 1993, she left Italy to avoid being arrested following her conviction of killing a policeman, various attempted murders, and other minor offenses. She moved to Paris where, thanks to the Mitterrand doctrine, she started a new life. She was arrested by the French, but the government of Nicolas Sarkozy announced that Petrella would not be extradited to Italy on medical grounds.[2]
On April 28 2021 she was again arrested together with 6 other former Red Brigades members living in France.
References[]
- ^ Article about Marina Petrella on Italian Wikipedia
- ^ BBC News (2008-10-13). Bruni backed Red Brigades woman. BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-10-13 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7668064.stm.
- 1954 births
- Italian assassins
- Italian communists
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