( dpa ) - Germany has indicted an 89-year-old former army officer for a World War Two atrocity in Italy, prosecutors in Munich said Friday evening.
The former lieutenant, who lives in Bavaria state, is accused of ordering the murders of 14 civilians in a village in the Italian region of Tuscany in 1944.
The man was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by an Italian military court in 2006.
A prosecutor told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the man could not be imprisoned in Germany under the Italian sentence, since the German justice system observes different rules of evidence and criminal procedure.
The newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, in a report to appear Saturday, said the accused had sent to prosecutors a doctor's certificate saying he was too infirm to stand trial. A German court would examine if this was so.