11 Sep, 2020 @ 14:43
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Italian neo-fascist terrorist arrested after hiding for YEARS among expat community on Spain’s Costa del Sol

Nazi Arrested

AN Italian terrorist has been cuffed on the Costa del Sol after being on the run for eight years.

Policia Nacional revealed today that they have arrested the female neo-fascist in Marbella, where she was living in a villa.

The woman had been part of the Nucleos Armado Revolucionario (NAR), an extreme right terror group active in Italy during the 1970s and 80s.

Nazi Arrested
CUFFED: Neo-fascist was part of militant terrorist group which killed dozens in the 70s and 80s in Italy

On August 2, 1980, the group detonated a bomb at Bologna train station which killed 85 people and injured a further 200.

The event remains the most serious terrorist massacre committed in the country since the end of World War Two and recently saw its 40th anniversary.

The woman arrested this week was a long-time militant in the group and had been arrested with another female counterpart in France in 2012.

However while waiting to be extradited they managed to escape and were not found again until this year.

Following a tip off, an exhaustive investigation led police to a villa in Marbella, where the women had been living together, officials said, leading to the arrest on Thursday.

The other woman, it transpired, had died in February, with her body sat in the Forensic Institute of Malaga waiting to be claimed by a relative.

Both had been sentenced by the Bolzano Court in Italy to more than nine and seven years in prison.

The fugitive will now face extradition.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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