Rome vows to block funeral of convicted war criminal Priebke

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Rome vows to block funeral of convicted war criminal Priebke

ROME | Sun Oct 13, 2013 11:34am EDT

(Reuters) - Civil and church authorities have moved to prevent a funeral in Rome for Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal convicted of one of Italy's worst wartime massacres, who died last week at the age of 100.

Priebke, who never apologized for his role in the killing of 335 civilians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome in 1944 and who denied the Nazi Holocaust ever took place, was serving a life sentence under house arrest in the Italian capital when he died.

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Ignazio Marino, the center-left mayor of Rome, said it would be an insult for Priebke to be buried in the city.

"I will do everything in my power to prevent the burial of Erich Priebke in Rome," he said in a statement.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/13/us-italy-priebke-idUSBRE99C05L20131013

[gopiscrap]

1. I am not sure how I feel about this

burial and a dignified service of grieving to me is one of the most elemental rights of all

[Submariner]

2. Burial at sea

fly out over the Med and shove his sorry ass out the back of a C-130 and let the fish chow down on his corpse.

[COLGATE4]

3. I wouldn't wish that on the fish. Cremate the

bastard and throw his ashes down the Rome sewer. That's still too good for him.