A Rome court has sentenced Pietro Nigroni, head of a Fascist gang which turned Jews over to the Nazis for monetary rewards, to five years’ imprisonment in absentia. Meanwhile, the Italian authorities have come in for considerable press criticism for failing to apply for Nigroni’s extradition from France.
A number of other members of Nigroni’s gang of informers have been sentenced in the last year. Details of the gang’s operation which emerged at the trial made it clear that its specialty was tracking down and kidnapping Jews and anti-Fascists and then selling them to their death at the hands of the Nazis or the Fascist police.
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