ABC
Rome
- 46-year-old Riccardo Pacifici
(above; right of 58-year-old Gianfranco Fini ,
president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies), president of the Rome Jewish
community, has urged the 37-year-old Italian justice minister
Angelino Alfano
(middle; left of 74-year-old Silvio Berlusconi ,
Prime Minister of Italy) to revoke the ' privileges' and to reject any attempts to ease the
detention the 97-year-old German Erich Priebke
(below).
Pacifici had recently relaunched a 2007 request for
an Italian law against 'HOLOCAUST denial' .
After images appeared on YouTube showing Priebke shopping in a supermarket, his lawyer confirmed that the former SS officer had been regularly venturing out of his home for the last
year.
He was given permission to carry out essential errands by the same military tribunal in Rome that sentenced him to life imprisonment in 1998.
He now has to give local police 36 hours' notice if he wants to leave his home and is accompanied by officers at all times, even in church when he attends Mass.
