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Marina Petrella

Marina Petrella

Italian assassin

Marina Petrella (born in Roma, 23 August 1954) is a former member of the terrorist Italian left wing group called the Red Brigades.[1] She was convicted to life sentence for murder.

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Biography

A former school teacher in the mid 1970s she joined a terrorist group called the Red Brigades. Together with her husband, Luigi Novelli, 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 six other former Red Brigades members living in France.

References

  1. [1]
    Article about Marina Petrella on Italian Wikipedia
  2. [2]
    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.


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