Marina Petrella (born in Roma, 23 August 1954) is a former member of the terrorist

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left wing group called the

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. She was convicted to life sentence for murder.

Biography

A former school teacher in the mid 1970s she joined a terrorist group called the

. 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

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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.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. On April 28 2021 she was again arrested together with six other former Red Brigades members living in France.

References

1954 births Italian assassins Italian communists Red Brigades Living people Italian exiles {{Italy-bio-stub