In 1998 there was an incident in a ski resort on the Dolomites. 20 people died because of USMC EA-6B Prowler who cut the cables of an aerial tramway. The aircraft was on a low altitude training mission. After that the italian court of Trento recognized that NATO treaties (London Agreement of 19 June 1951) gave jurisdiction to US military courts.
The pilot and the navigator were put on trial in the USA and found not guilty even if latter they were found guilty of obstruction of justice because they destroyed a videotape recording from the plane and so they were dismissed from USMC.
Anyway, this disaster strained the relations between US and Italy but nothing happened after... I also remember other "incidents" like that: the killing of a Major General of the SISMI (the italian military security and intelligence service) in 2005 in Iraq by a US Guardsman, for example, and the leftist parties asked for the retreat of italian troops from Iraq but, again, nothing happened...
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Last edited by Muti; 09-01-2013 at 07:16 AM.
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