Marina Petrella
Italian assassin
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Marina Petrella (born in Roma, 23 August 1954) is a former member of the Italian militant group the Red Brigades. She was convicted to life sentence for murder.
Marina Petrella | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marina Petrella 23 August 1954 |
| Organization | Red Brigades |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
A former school teacher in the mid 1970s she joined the Red Brigades. 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 Paris 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.[1]
On April 28 2021, she was again arrested together with six other former Red Brigades members living in France.
