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武装勢力の人質になり解放されたイタリア人を護衛中の情報機関員ニコラ・カリパリ氏は2005年3月、バクダード空港に向かう途中チェックポイントで、解放された人質を身を挺して護り、アメリカパトロール隊の手で銃撃、射殺された。
この時、運転手を務めたもう一名の情報機関員と、解放され護衛されていたイタリア人も銃撃で負傷した。
この事件の犯人、米軍第69歩兵連隊のマリオ・ロザーノ兵士を2月7日、ローマの検察当局が殺人罪で起訴した。
公判は4月17日に始まるが、米軍当局はロザーノ兵士の所在を明らかにしない（身柄引き渡しに応じない）ので、欠席裁判になる模様。
未亡人のローザ・カリパリ上院議員は「起訴に満足している。真実への第一歩だ」と語り、事件当時カリパリ氏に護衛されていた左翼ジャーナリストのジュリアーナ・ズグレナさんは、「マリオ・ロザーナ兵士をスケープ・ゴートにしてはならない。責任者を明らかにして正義を勝ち取りたい」と語った。
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http://today.reuters.com/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L0744988
Italy to try U.S. soldier for agent's death in Iraq
Wed 7 Feb 2007 9:12 AM ET
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By Phil Stewart
ROME, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A Rome judge ordered on Wednesday a U.S. soldier to stand trial on homicide charges for shooting dead an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq in 2005 as he was escorting a newly freed hostage to safety, prosecutors said.
Mario Lozano of the U.S. Army's 69th Infantry Regiment was charged with voluntary homicide for shooting Nicola Calipari at a checkpoint near Baghdad airport.
He will be almost certainly tried in absentia as the U.S. military has not revealed his location to Italy.
Lozano was also charged with two counts of attempted murder against another Italian agent driving the vehicle and the freed Italian hostage whom they were protecting.
Calipari became a national hero in Italy for securing the release of kidnapped left-wing journalist Giuliana Sgrena. He died shielding her from gunfire at a U.S. checkpoint.
His widow Rosa, now a member of the Italian Senate, said at the hearing in a criminal court that she was "satisfied" at the decision by Judge Sante Spinaci, but added: "This is the first step in a long process. I hope we will eventually have justice."
The freed journalist Sgrena told reporters: "We don't want to make Mario Lozano the scapegoat, but we want to find out who was responsible and have justice."
The trial will begin on April 17, said the prosecutors Alessandra Bruni and Pietro Saviotti.
The shooting of Calipari prompted an outcry in Italy and added to the unpopularity of then premier Silvio Berlusconi's decision to support the United States in Iraq. He eventually decided to withdraw Italian troops.
Rosa Calipari has denounced Washington for exonerating Lozano and Berlusconi's government for accepting that it was an accident. Rome did however criticise the U.S. military for placing inexperienced troops at a poorly executed roadblock.
Lozano's Italian defence lawyer Fabrizio Cardinali said the decision surprised him: "He (Lozano) was carrying out his duty, which is something that the judge did not consider relevant."
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