No 100th birthday party in public for Nazi officer
'I will personally make sure' says Rome mayor
23 July, 19:07
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(ANSA) - Rome, July 23 - The mayor of Rome said Tuesday he would "personally make sure" that a former Nazi officer about to turn 100 here would not have any kind of celebration in public. "No one should celebrate someone responsible for massacres," added Ignazio Marino. Erich Priebke, who turns 100 on Monday, was extradited from Argentina in 1995 and sentenced to life for his part in a 1944 reprisal outside Rome that killed 335 men and boys including many Jews.
Priebke is now under house arrest in Rome. Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors had appealed to the city to prevent any birthday parties similar to his 90th, which was celebrated in grand style at an agriturismo restaurant.
Priebke is now under house arrest in Rome. Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors had appealed to the city to prevent any birthday parties similar to his 90th, which was celebrated in grand style at an agriturismo restaurant.
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