A Paris court on Wednesday once more put off, until March 23, a hearing on the extradition to Italy of former leftist terrorist Giorgio Pietrostefani, one of a group of 10 former terrorists for which France has authorized extradition, putting a definitive end to the so-called Mitterrand Doctrine.
His lawyer said he was unable to attend Wednesday's hearing
because of failing health.
PIetrostefani, 78, has been convicted in Italy for conspiracy in
helping order the 1972 murder of Milan police commissioner Luigi
Calabresi in retaliation for the death of an anarchist bombing
suspect, Giuseppe PInelli, who fell from a police station window
in what late Nobel prizewinning playwright Dario Fo called, in
his famed play, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Pietrostefani was a leading member of the hard-left group Lotta
Continua, whose leader Adriano Sofri served 22 years for
ordering the murder of Calabresi, who had been cleared of all
responsibility in Pinelli's death.
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