Argentina will not allow convicted Nazi war criminal Erich
Priebke to be buried on its territory, its Foreign Ministry has stated on
Twitter.
Priebke died Friday in Rome, aged 100, where he was serving
house arrest for a life sentence for his role in a 1944 massacre in which
German soldiers shot dead 335 civilians.
"Foreign Minister Hector Timerman has given the order
not to accept the slightest move to allow the return of the body of Nazi
criminal Erich Priebke to our country," Argentinian authorities reported
late Friday.
"Argentines will not accept this kind of affront to
human dignity," they added.
Priebke's lawyer in Rome, Paolo Giachini, had said Friday
that the former SS captain wanted to be buried next to his wife in Bariloche,
the Argentinian town where he lived after escaping from Europe in 1948.
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