Italy Convicts 10 Ex-Nazis for Massacre

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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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_eu/italy_nazi_massacre

Will we have to wait that long to convict the Bush Crime Family?

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1. This makes me smile! n/t

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2. CONVICTIONS FOR WWII MASSACRE

<snip> However the sentences were largely a symbolic gesture, as they are unlikely to be extradited from their homes in Germany and are too old to serve time in jail in Italy. <snip>

“It is a huge success, an almost unexpected one. We have waited 60 years for this,” Ennio Mancini told Reuters, recalling how as a six-year-old boy he had been lined up before a firing squad. <snip>

The SS soldiers entered the village under the premise of hunting partisan fighters.

But most of the 560 people estimated to have been rounded up and killed were women and children, one child as young as 20 days old. <snip>

http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=114351®ion=3