The European Parliament on Thursday
voted a resolution again calling on Nicaragua to extradite to
Italy former Red Brigades (BR) terrorist Alessio Casimirri,
convicted in the 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian
Democrat statesman Aldo Moro.
The resolution reaffirmed a request already made two years ago.
Casimirri, 69, has for years been living in Managua under the
protection of the Nicaraguan government, where he owns a
restaurant.
Casimirri was born in Rome in 1951. His mother was a Vatican
City citizen, and his father had worked for the Vatican
newspaper L'Osservatore Romano and as the public relations man
for three Popes.
After a militancy in Potere Operaio and other left organizations
in Rome, he entered the Red Brigades. He was condemned in
absentia to life imprisonment for the assassination of Aldo
Moro's escort in 1978. In 1980 he abandoned the BR and
subsequently fled abroad, reaching Nicaragua after a period in
Libya and Cuba. In the Central American country he participated
in the Sandinist guerrilla against the Contras. Together with
other Italian expatriates, he opened a restaurant in Managua,
called "Magica Roma" and more recently another seafood
restaurant called "La cueva del Buzo" (diver's lair) in Managua.
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