France has told Italy that the recent controversial refusal to extradite ex-terrorist Marina Petrella was an ''exceptional'' case which will not be repeated, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Thursday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has also assured Italy that the so-called 'Mitterand Doctrine' protecting former militants from extradition has ''been definitively buried,'' Frattini said.
''Sarkozy has assured us of this and the French authorities have understood,'' he said.
The French president met with relatives of terrorist victims this week and explained that Petrella's case was a one-off, dictated by ''extraordinary humanitarian'' reasons.
