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Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died in Italy, officials in Buenos Aires said Friday.
“Foreign Minister Hector Timerman has given the order not to accept the slightest move to allow the return of the body of Nazi criminal Erich Priebke to our country,” the foreign ministry said in a tweet.
“Argentines will not accept this kind of affront to human dignity.”
Priebke died Friday in Rome aged 100 after serving nearly 15 years under house arrest for a World War II massacre in Italy for which he never expressed remorse.
His lawyer Paolo Giachini had said he would be buried near his wife in Argentina, where he fled after the war.
Priebke was sentenced to life in prison in 1998 for his role in a bloodbath at Rome’s Ardeatine caves in March 1944 that left 335 people dead, including 75 Jews.
Because of his age and ill-health he was allowed to serve out his life sentence at Giachini’s home.