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July 20, 2021

Former terrorist Maurizio Di Marzio was released from

prison

after being arrested in Paris

following an extradition request submitted by Italy.

According to what

Di Marzio

learns,

he returned to freedom with the obligation to sign every 15 days

.

The man had escaped the "Red Shadows" operation of the Italian police at the end of April in agreement with the French police which led to the arrest of seven former Red terrorists. 



Di Marzio was in France since the early nineties, thanks to the "Mitterand doctrine". He still has to serve five years and nine months in prison, on a 14-year sentence imposed on him. His name is linked to various terrorist acts and in particular to the attack on the manager of the provincial employment office in Rome, Enzo Retrosi, in 1981, and to the attempted kidnapping, in the so-called Years of Lead, of the prefect Nicola Simone, to the Deputy Head of the Digos in the Capital.



"He was finally brought to justice, better late than never. They managed to catch him, and with his capture, the circle is closed. I'm happy, and my husband would be too, because this ends a story that lasted 40 years, too. if for the serious crimes committed it will never pay enough. It was one of the bad pages in the history of this country, one that, at the same time, must be forgotten, for their ferocity, and remembered, so that it never happens again ".

Giovanna Zugaro, life partner of the prefect Nicola Simone

, who died last March in the capital where he resided, comments on the capture, which took place in the past few hours in Paris, of the exponent of the Red Brigades Maurizio Di Marzio, 61, the last of the former terrorists for whom Italy was asking for the extradition. He had escaped the maxi-blitz at the end of April, when seven other former terrorists were arrested in France, but yesterday his inaction ended.  



"It was the day of the Epiphany of '82 - says Zugaro - and my husband was at home, I wasn't". It was around 3 pm when the armed assault began. "They rang the door pretending to be postmen - recalls Zugaro -. My husband immediately became suspicious: strange hours for postmen, and then during a holiday. Before opening he took the pistol he always had with him, a 38 special, and the 'he slipped under the pullover he was wearing. When he opened it, after peering through the peephole, he found a man in front of him and, out of the corner of his eye, saw others coming up the stairs. They had to kidnap him, because was known, even to journalists, since he dealt with press relations in the Police, and bring him to Marino,where a prison had already been set up and there to try and condemn him. "Instead, on that landing, a bloody firefight was born.



Nicola Simone was head of the State Police until 2003 when he was appointed prefect by the Council of Ministers. He was the first director of Interpol Italy and the first to direct the central operational service of the State Police and was head of the inter-force mission in Albania in the late 1990s. It was he who trained the Albanian police according to Italian standards and blocked the rubber boats that departed from Albania towards the Adriatic coast full of illegal immigrants. He died on March 17 at the age of 81.