Marina Petrella is a former member of the terrorist Italian

Italy

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 left wing group the Red Brigades

Red Brigades

The Red Brigades was a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organisation, based in Italy, which was responsible for numerous violent incidents, assassinations, and robberies during the so-called "Years of Lead"...

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Biography

A former school teacher in the middle of the 1970s she joined a terrorist group named the Brigate Rosse. Together with her husband, Luigi Novelli, she was arrested twice. However she was not jailed because a verdict was not reached in time.
In 1993 she left Italy to avoid arrest following her conviction for the killing of a policeman, various attempted murders and other minor offenses. She moved to Paris

Paris

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 where, thanks to the Mitterrand doctrine

Mitterrand doctrine

The Mitterrand doctrine was a policy established in 1985 by French president François Mitterrand concerning Italian far-left terrorists who fled to France: those convicted for violent acts in Italy, but excluding "active, actual, bloody terrorism" during the "Years of Lead" would not be extradited...

, she started a new life. She was arrested by the French, but the government of Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy

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announced that Petrella would not be extradited to Italy on medical grounds.