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French Police Arrest Extremist Red Brigades Members Sought By Italy

The members of the violent radical-left Italian terrorist group active in the 1970s and 1980s were arrested Wednesday after years of living under de facto French asylum.
In 2008, people hold portraits of a former member of Italy's disbanded Red Brigades group Marina Petrella as they take part in a rally in Paris against her extradition to Italy. Petrella is one of seven individuals whose arrest in France was announced Wednesday.

Several former members of the Red Brigades – a violent radical-left Italian terrorist group that was active in the 1970s and 1980s – were arrested Wednesday in France after years of living under de facto asylum, the French government said in a statement.

The seven fugitives taken into custody – all but one former members of the Red Brigadessentences.

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