France Italy rift over former leftists: French top court rejects extradition of ten militants
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"Disconcerting." That's the reaction of Italy's far-right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini to France's rejection of the extradition of ten 1970s radical left militants, wanted over murders and bank robberies. They'd been here for decades after political asylum when François Mitterrand was president. An appeals court ruling the defendants now aged between 62 and 79 would not get a fair trial. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Rome reports.