Father Franco Reverberi, the 86-year-old priest from the diocese of Parma accused of crimes against humanity, including the 1976 murder of 20-year-old Peronist José Guillermo Beron, and of witnessing the torture sessions to which prisoners of General Videla's regime were subjected during the years of the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983, will not be handed over to Argentine authorities, who would like to try him. Justice Minister Carlo Nordio rejected the cleric's extradition due to the person's "advanced age and health condition".Reverberi, a military chaplain in Mendoza in 1980, is wanted for some acts that took place in the clandestine detention center "La Departamental" by Argentine justice investigating the murders and disappearances of thousands of young people under the so-called Condor Plan. In the spring of 2011, when he was joined by a summons from the federal prosecutor, the priest - who has always declared himself innocent - had found shelter in Italy, to be precise in Sorbolo (where he was born in 1937), a small town in the province of Parma where he also celebrated mass.
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