No extradition for exiles of the « years of lead »

In the name of respect for private and family life as well as the European Convention on Human Rights, the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal issued an unfavorable opinion on 29 June on extradition. ten former activists sentenced in Italy for acts of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s. The prosecution can still make an appeal in cassation. But, from this stage, it is a great victory for Marina Petrella, ex-militant of the Red Brigades already arrested and for a time threatened with extradition during the Sarkozy presidency in 2007-2008, and the nine other refugees. Justice refuses to endorse the reversal of Emmanuel Macron and his Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, who, in the spring of 2021, had decided to trample on the « Mitterrand doctrine ». This principle according to which Italians exiled in France to escape exceptional justice could not be extradited, provided they had renounced the armed struggle. Forty years, at least, have passed and Italy will not see the color of its dish of state revenge…