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Man sentenced for the airplane disaster on August 6, 2005, will not be extradited to Italy

Rome, Italy - The association of the victims calls the Minister Orlando, the French court of appeal said there was an error in the documentation

The court of appeal of Paris rejected the request of Italian authorities to extradite the Tunisian copilot -who is currently in France- that in 2013 was considered by the Italian High Court to be among the persons responsible of the water landing of the Tuninter aircraft on the 6th of August 2005, off the coast of Sicily (Italy), an accident in which 16 people died. To denounce the episode -which would...

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Rome, Italy, 08/03/2017 06:25
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