Luigi Bergamin, one of the 3 former red terrorists fleeing after the wave of arrests yesterday morning in France, presented himself at the courthouse in Paris together with his lawyer to appear.
ANSA learned this from investigative sources.
After Bergamin, Raffaele Ventura, one of the
fugitives in the 'Ombre Rosse' operation
, was also constituted .
Of the ten former left-wing terrorists hit by arrest warrants, only Maurizio Di Marzio remains a fugitive.
Luigi Bergamin, former militant of the PAC
(Armed Proletarians for Communism),
must serve a sentence of 16 years and 11 months
of imprisonment 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. On April 8, Bergamin's prescription would have taken effect, but the terms were interrupted by the Milanese surveillance magistrate Gloria Gambitta at the request of the prosecutor Adriana Blasco, who declared Bergamin a "habitual delinquent". The judicial affair of Bergamin and the other Italians was followed directly in France by the Italian liaison magistrate in Paris, Roberta Collidà, in close cooperation with her French colleagues. Today the Collidà is in Rome for a meeting at the Ministry of Justice, destined to take stock of the 'Ombre Rosse' operation and its developments in the coming days.
"It's good news, he turned himself in, it means that he understood, it is an admission. Now he will be able to serve his sins".
This is the comment of Adriano Sabbadin, the son of the butcher Lino Sabbadin, killed in 1979 by the Pac
, when he learned that the former red terrorist Luigi Bergamin appeared before the French authorities in Paris.
On the operation that saw the collaboration between Italy and France Sabbadin added: "I have never had any doubts about
Italian justice".
Between today and tomorrow, at the courthouse in Paris, the prosecutor Clarisse Taron will present her requests to the judge on the continuation or not of the arrest for the 7 former Italian terrorists for whom the extradition request procedure has started. According to what is learned from sources of the investigation, at least for some of them there is a preference for alternative measures to detention or probation. Other sources, close to the defense, say they fear instead the extension of the detention state due to a "risk of flight".
The position of Luigi
Bergamin
will also be examined within 48 hours