International
Prosecutor explains
death of hijack victim
ROME (AP) — Loon Klinghoffer may have been killed by
the At hi He Lauro hijackers because he tried to defend himself
after he was pushed end insulted, a prosecutor was quoted
Sunday as saying.
The body of the 68-year-old. partly paralyzed New
Yorker was flown Sunday to New York from Rome, where an
autopsy indicated he was killed by gunfire.
The Rome daily La Republics quoted Genoa Deputy Pro
secutor Luigi Carll as saying that investigators had learned
from three witnesses that Klinghoffer had "reacted" to
shoves and gibes by one of the four hijackers.
One hijacker then slugged Klinghoffer in the stomach
and another shot him with a Kalashnikov submachine gun,
Carli said.
Calls to Carli's office in an attempt to confirm the reports
went unanswered Sunday.
La Repubblica also said that Klinghoffer had been
separated from the other hostages aboard the luxury liner
because the four pirates had considered the wheelchair
bound man an "obstacle."
Another Rome newspaper, II Messaggero, quoted un
named judicial sources as saying that Klinghoffer had actual
ly struck one of the hijackers whan his watch was ripped from
his wrist.
Angered, the hijacker called for Klinghoffer's execution.
11 Measaggero said. The paper did not say which pirate made
the demand.
Both newspapers reported that Klinghoffer's wife,
Marilyn, knew definitely of his death only as the hijackers
were leaving the ship after their surrender Oct. 8.
The pirates, who claim to belong to a faction of the
Palestine Liberation Front, terrorized more than 500 people
for 51 hours aboard the Achiile Lauro.
On Sunday. U S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb stood by
quietly as the American flag-draped coffin carrying Kitnghof
fer's body was brought to a Pan Am 747 waiting at Rome's
Leonardo Ds Vinci airport to take it to New York, where it
was met by members of the Klinghoffer family and govern
ment officials.
The pirates were questioned st length Saturday in the
maximum security prison in Spoleto, in central Italy, where
they are in custody, the Italian news agency ANSA said.
Prosecutors in Canoe, claiming a right to jurisdiction in
the cue because the ship left from Genoa on Oct. 3, have ask
ed those in Siracusa. Sicily, to hand over to them results of
thebr investigation.
judicial authorities In Siracusa have been conducting
their own investigation because the four hijackers were
brought to Sicily in an Egyptian plane forced down there by
U S. warplanes Oct. It.
The Court of Cassation. Italy’s highest court dealing with
criminal matters, was expected to be called upon to resolve
the question of jurisdiction.
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