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Things would've gone a bit harder for him if he'd been extradited to France, I suspect. In Italy, he could play up the Ollie North angle ("I'm a patriot, dammi

Things would've gone a bit harder for him if he'd been extradited to France, I suspect. In Italy, he could play up the Ollie North angle ("I'm a patriot, dammit!")

someperson 17y ago
It makes me feel uncomfortable that sentences for crimes are orders of magnitude different depending on where you are being tried. I guess different communities have different weightings on certain crimes.
- aerique 17y ago
  /me shoots some heroin into his eyeball
- drp 17y ago
  Assassinate a world leader and you're a criminal in his home country but a hero to his enemies.
gamble 17y ago
Italy in 1913 was nominally an ally of Germany and Austria, but in truth more closely allied with France. It's possible that the French and Italian authorities wanted to avoid a public spectacle that would inflame nationalists in both countries and make it more difficult to keep Italy a defacto French ally.