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Italy Convicts 10 Ex-Nazis for Massacre
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Jun 22, 2005 02:59pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ROME - Italian judges Wednesday convicted 10 former members of the Nazi SS accused of taking part in the 1944 massacre of more than 500 villagers in northern Italy and sentenced them to life in prison, a defense lawyer said.
The verdict was returned after about seven hours of deliberations by the three-judge panel, ANSA said. The defendants, all German men in their 80s, were being tried in absentia in the Italian town of La Spezia. The men are believed to be in Germany.
Luigi Trucco, a lawyer for two of the defendants, expressed disappointment at the ruling and said an appeal is exptected.
"You don't want such a ruling to become final," he said. Trucco added he would wait for the written explanations that judges have to give after they made a ruling.
But, he said "the judges evidently accepted the prosecutors' argument that they all knew and were all present."
In August 1944, about 300 SS troops surrounded the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, which had been flooded with refugees, ostensibly to hunt for partisans. Instead, they rounded up and shot villagers, according to survivors. Others were herded into basements and other enclosed spaces and killed with hand grenades. |
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