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Europe
Life term for ’Red Brigade’ terrorist woman
2004-06-10
An Italian court has given a life sentence to a woman linked to resurgent left-wing guerrillas the Red Brigades. Nadia Desdemona Lioce, 44, was arrested after a bloody gunfight on the Rome-Florence train in March 2003. Her travelling companion, Mario Galesi, was killed after he shot dead a police officer checking their identity papers. Both Galesi and Lioce were fugitives, believed to have ties to the Red Brigades, linked to many acts of violence in Italy 30 years ago. The guerrillas are notorious for having kidnapped and murdered in cold blood killed the former Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, in 1978. A new group, claiming descent from the brigades, announced their excretion arrival in 1999 with the murder of labour ministry adviser Massimo D’Antona. The militants also said they were behind the 2002 murder of another labour ministry official, Marco Biagi.

Lioce says she is a raving @sshole political prisoner and ought to be executed tried as such. ’Political prisoner’ Lioce is still under investigation for her alleged role in the two murders assassinations. Although she did not fire any shots in the encounter that led to her arrest on the train, the court ruled she was guilty of attempted murder and of being an accomplice to murder. It handed her a life sentence and ordered her to pay damages of $500,000 to the family of the murdered policeman, Emanuele Petri. Lioce has described herself as a piece of excrement on two legs "political prisoner" and miscreant "militant" and says she will appeal against the ruling. Her lawyer has argued that she should be tried under Italian civil - rather than criminal - law because her group believes itself to be at war with the Italian state.
Where do they get these mouthpieces? "At war with the Italian state?" How did I manage to miss the formal declaration and beach head landing?
The BBC’s Frances Kennedy in Rome says this is the first trial of a member of the new formation of the Red Brigades. Investigators claim Lioce’s capture revealed information which has led to a series of arrests that have broken the back of the group.
It looks like the Italians are doing a part of the heavy lifting for a change.
Posted by:Zenster

#4  If the verdict is not guilty on this charge, have another charge waiting in the wings: sedition.
Posted by: jules 187   2004-06-10 1:02:56 PM  

#3  Aaah a life of tattoos and dildoes!
Maybe that's what she wanted.
Posted by: BigEd   2004-06-10 12:35:23 PM  

#2  Ok put her in a Military Tribunal abd summarily execute the BITCH!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2004-06-10 7:23:49 AM  

#1  
Her lawyer has argued that she should be tried under Italian civil - rather than criminal - law because her group believes itself to be at war with the Italian state.

OK. When you come to court, bring along the parts of the Italian civil law that apply to groups that believe they are at war with the Italian state.
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-06-10 6:58:51 AM  

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