He had sued Germany for being deported from 1943 to 1945. And today Giorgio Quarantelli, who died in 2017 at the age of 94, won.

The civil court of Parma in fact agreed with him and asked the Federal Republic of Germany for 100 thousand euros in compensation, which theoretically should reach the family members. Which is unlikely to happen but the sentence is symbolically very important.

Quarantelli "was the victim of a war crime (reduction into slavery) which infringes the inviolable right to the preservation of personal dignity and physical integrity, without there being any (proven) cause of justification known to international law (of war and peace)".

Judge Marco Vittoria wrote the sentence, who also sentenced Germany to pay the interest accrued from 30 January 2013. The "inhuman treatment" suffered by Quarantelli during his imprisonment in Germany from 1943 to 1945 was thus recognized. was one of the many Italian soldiers who after 8 September did not join the Italian Social Republic and was deported to Nazi labor camps.

As reported today by the Gazzetta di Parma, he was imprisoned in the Oechlitz-Merseburg camp from September 1943 to June 26, 1945 and forced, in a regime of slavery, to take sacks of coal to a steel mill. As a meal, three ounces of bread a day seasoned with ox blood and on the arm, tattooed, the number 211013.

The judge, referring to a sentence of the Constitutional Court of 2014 and one of the Cassation of 2020 on the jurisdiction of foreign states, ruled that the damages due to war crimes must be borne by a sovereign authority. In this case, Germany.

(Unioneonline / D)