Italy Wants to Indict US Soldier
Charles Johnson
Mon Jun 19, 2006 at 9:21 am PDT • Views: 180
Italian prosecutors are trying to charge a US soldier with murder, in the Giuliana Sgrena (lgf: search) checkpoint incident: American GI’s indictment sought in Italy. (Hat tip: Ward Cleaver.)
ROME - Prosecutors have requested the indictment of a U.S. soldier over the shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Iraq last year, a prosecutor said Monday.
Authorities were seeking the indictment on charges of murder and attempted murder, the official said on condition of anonymity because of a new law allowing only the chief prosecutor to speak to the media.
Prosecutor Erminio Amelio previously has identified the U.S. soldier as Mario Lozano. Local newspapers have reported that Lozano is from New York.
Fabrizio Cardinali, Lozano’s court-appointed lawyer, said last week he expected his client would be tried in absentia for murder and attempted murder.
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