Marina Petrella
Marina Petrella | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marina Petrella 23 August 1954 |
| Organization | Red Brigades |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Marina Petrella (born in Roma, 23 August 1954) is a former member of the terrorist Italian left wing group called the Red Brigades.[1] She was convicted to life sentence for murder.
Biography
A former school teacher in the mid 1970s she joined a terrorist group called the Red Brigades. Together with her husband, Luigi Novelli, she was arrested twice, but was never sent to jail because a verdict was not reached in time.
In 1993, she left Italy to avoid being arrested following her conviction of killing a policeman, various attempted murders and other minor offenses. She moved to Paris where, thanks to the Mitterrand doctrine, she started a new life. She was arrested by the French, but the government of Nicolas Sarkozy announced that Petrella would not be extradited to Italy on medical grounds.[2]
On April 28 2021 she was again arrested together with six other former Red Brigades members living in France.
References
- ^ Article about Marina Petrella on Italian Wikipedia
- ^ BBC News (2008-10-13). Bruni backed Red Brigades woman. BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-10-13 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7668064.stm.