Sweden Wins Arrest of ‘Blond Angel’
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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