Sweden Wins Arrest of ‘Blond Angel’
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Argentina has arrested an infamous navy officer, dubbed the “Blond Angel,” at the request of Sweden, which wants to extradite and try him for the death of a young Swedish girl in 1977, a court said.
Alfredo Astiz, who during Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship was a member of an anti-leftist death squad, is also wanted by Italy and Spain and has been condemned in absentia by France to life in prison for killing two nuns.
The once-cherubic-looking Astiz is accused of killing Dagmar Hagelin, 15, a student in Argentina who was mistaken for a suspected leftist.
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