Nazi war criminal living in Vancouver BC Canada is one step closer to extradition

by Susan Jones | August 3, 2007 at 05:43 pm

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I'm certain there are many people who are celebrating this but what justice will come of it? Time will tell.

Convicted Nazi war criminal one step closer extradition to Italy

Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun

Published: Friday, August 03, 2007

A Nazi war criminal living in Vancouver will spend the long weekend in jail after the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld an extradition request from Italy, which wants the man returned to serve a life sentence for torturing and murdering prisoners.

Now a frail 83-year-old man who walks with a cane, Michael Seifert was a member of the German S.S. (Schutzstaffel, the Nazi special police force) and a guard at the Bolzano Transit Camp in northern Italy during the Second World War.

The Italian government alleges Seifert beat, tortured, starved and murdered inmates at the Nazi-run prison camp between December 1944 and April 1945.