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Thursday, February 12, 1987Nazis guilty of murders ;mUnited Press International_VERONA, Italy — A court convicted two self-styled Nazi extremists of murdering two monks, a priest and two allegeddrug addicts who the killersconsidered to be “the dregs of humanity,” officials said Wednesday.Wolfgang Abel, 26, a West German who grew up in Verona, and Marco Furlan, 25, alsowere found guilty late Tuesday of setting fires at a pornographic movie theater in Milan and a popular discotheque in Munich, West Germany, in 1983.Each of the defendants was sentenced to 30 years in prisonfor the crimes. They escaped maximum life terms because the court accepted a medical report that the two are “mentally semi-invalid.” Both men were ordered to undergo three years of psychiatric therapy after completing their sentences.The Verona court acquittedthe pair of 10 other slayings.Defense lawyers announcedthey will appeal the guilty verdicts.During the two-month trial,Abel and Furlan were accusedof 15 murders between 1977 and 1984.
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Arlington Heights, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 12, 1987
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