Saturday, January 19, 2008

"Beast of Bolzano" of WWII Infamy Extradited from Canada to Italy to Face Life Sentence

The ANNOTICO Report

 

Nazi 'Beast' to be Deported to Italy

Canwest News Service

Friday, January 18, 2008

OTTAWA -- The Department of Justice says deportation arrangements are being made for 83-year-old Michael Seifert, a convicted Nazi war criminal.

Seifert, currently in custody in Port Coquitlam, was convicted by an Italian court. The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday rejected his application to have his extradition rescinded.

The former ethnic German from Ukraine, who is a Canadian citizen, has been fighting extradition to Italy, where he faces a life sentence for his crimes.

"From our perspective, this is the last stage," said Alain Charette from the Department of Justice, adding that he could not discuss extradition plans.

"Extradition matters are always very touchy," he said.

Seifert was convicted in absentia seven years ago of killing nine prisoners while he was a guard at a Nazi prison camp in Bolzano, Italy, from 1944 to 1945....

Dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano," Seifert was accused of torturing and killing 15 prisoners at the police transit camp that imprisoned... Italian resistance fighters and others.

Witnesses at Seifert's trial identified him as the guard who beat prisoners before shooting them, starving a 15-year-old prisoner to death and gouging out the eyes of another.

The three judges who presided over the trial said he was a "ruthless, efficient dispenser of death."

Seifert has been living in B.C. since moving to Canada in 1951.

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=ebc49673-28b5-4263-ae86-a8a8fb535103

 

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