A preliminary committal hearing to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to proceed to a full trial is sched-uled in Rome for December 7.
Priebke shook hands with police and hugged some of those who escorted him to the local airport, witnesses said. Interior Minister Carlos Corach later asked that the young officer who was caught by television cameras hugging Priebke be stripped of his police duties. The police susp
ended him and the officer in charge.
In an interview published yesterday by a local newspaper Priebke expressed grief at having to leave his family behind and hope that his captors will set him free.
He said his wife Alicia was not accompanying him because of her poor health. "She suffered a shock the day I was arrested," he said.
Several Italian Interpol members and at least two doctors also boarded the plane. Priebke has a heart condition but an Argentina judge ruled last week he was fit for the flight.
He has been under house ar-rest in Bariloche since confess-ing his part in the atrocity to a US television interviewer last year. The extradition put an end to a year and a half of legal wrangling.
Priebke, who spent the week-end with relatives and friends, said in a newspaper interview on Sunday that he had rejected re-peated Vatican pleas to avoid the massacre.
The Buenos Aires Herald, Buenos Aires, Argentina November 21, 1995
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