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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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