ROME, Italy – Italy’s justice minister has blocked the extradition to Argentina of a priest accused of crimes towards humanity throughout a navy dictatorship within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, a supply with direct information of the matter mentioned on Friday.
Father Franco Reverberi, 86, faces expenses associated to the alleged homicide in 1976 of 20-year-old political activist Jose Guillermo Beron, and his alleged participation in torture by the junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla.
Reverberi, who has Argentine and Italian nationality, has at all times denied any wrongdoing.
Italy’s high appeals courtroom cleared his extradition in October, however Justice Minister Carlo Nordio had the proper to both affirm or block the choice.
The supply informed Reuters he vetoed the extradition on account of Reverberi’s superior age and the state of his well being.
The priest, previously a navy chaplain in junta-ruled Argentina, had returned to his hometown close to Parma, in northern Italy, in 2011, after trials towards pro-junta figures had began in Argentina.
During the 1976-1983 navy dictatorship, underneath the so-called Dirty War, as many as 30,000 leftist opponents “disappeared” in Argentina, a euphemism for kidnapped and murdered, based on human rights teams.
In a parallel case, a trial is ready to start out in Rome on April 22 towards an Argentine military officer, Lt. Col. Carlos Luis Malatto, accused of the premeditated killing of eight folks underneath the Videla regime. — Reuters
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