(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 18 - The supreme Court of Cassation on Friday rejected prosecutors' request for a European arrest warrant for a 76-year-old German who is accused of helping disappear an Italo-Chilean photographer and leftist activist under the Pinochet regime in 1976.
    Juan Maino Canales, 27, was abducted with two fellow MAPU militants on May 26, 1976 by agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) and disappeared.
    The German, Reinardh Doring Falkenberg, was arrested in the upscale Tuscan resort town of Forte dei Marmi on September 22 but then allowed to return to Germany on November 22.
    An extradition request from Chile arrived too late and he was left out of jail on health grounds.
    The Cassation Court on Friday ruled he could not be arrested in his home town of Gronau, in North Rhine-Westphalia. (ANSA).