8) Maurizio Di Marzio, 60, who escaped the April 2021 raid and was later arrested, is at the center of a prescription dispute. He should serve in Italy a residual sentence of 5 years and 9 months in prison for armed gang, subversive association, kidnapping and robbery. Di Marzio has been managing a well-known restaurant in Paris for many years, the ‘Baraonda’.
9) Raffaele Ventura70, former Combat Communist Formations, is expected to serve 20 years in prison in Italy after being convicted of moral complicity in the murder of deputy brigadier Antonio Custra, which took place on May 14, 1977, during a demonstration of the extra-parliamentary left in Milan.
10) Luigi Bergamin, 72, a former militant of the Pac (Armed Proletarians for Communism), he too is at the center of a legal battle for the statute of limitations. He must serve a sentence of 16 years and 11 months in prison as the creator of the murder of Marshal Antonio Santoro, chief of the prison police officers killed in Udine on 6 June 1978 by Cesare Battisti
The reactions to the sentence
At the reading in the Paris court of the sentence rejecting the extradition requests to Italy for the 10 former terrorists, a group of Italians led by Lega deputy Daniele Belotti shouted “assassins!”. The group, which had unrolled a protest banner in front of the courthouse before the hearing, also includes the mayor of Telgate, in the province of Bergamo, the town of origin of one of the former terrorists, Narciso Manenti, and the president and vice president of the Bergamo Carabinieri Association named after Giuseppe Gurrieri, the constable killed in 1979 by Manenti in front of his 11-year-old son.
For Irène Terrel, legal historian of the former Italian terrorists refugees in France, in today’s sentence that denies extradition “the higher principles of law have been applied”, with reference to respect for the personal, private life and health of the accused and controversial rules of the trial in absentia.