Alleged multiple murdered
Norbert Feher aka 'Igor the Russian' said at a preliminary
hearing Wednesday that he did not want a public trial.
On a video link with Zaragoza prison in Spain, the Serb was
asked if he would allow journalists to be present.
His defence requested a fast-track trial pending a
psychiatric evaluation.
The daughter of one of Igor's victims, environmental aid
worker Valerio Verri, told reporters "sadly perhaps a murderer
with a black skin would make more of a noise than Igor".
Feher was indicted in April for the murders of barman Davide
Fabbri and Verri near Bologna and Ferrara in April last year.
In the indictment request, Feher was cited as using at least
six aliases.
He has been charged with 11 crimes including murder, judicial
sources said.
Feher is in jail in Zaragoza in Spain where he has been
indicted for another three murders committed before he was
arrested there in December.
Feher alias Igor Vaclavic confessed to two murders in Italy
and three in Spain before a Spanish magistrate in mid-December.
But he refused to answer Italian prosecutors' questions,
exercising his right to remain silent.
Feher, 37, was captured on December 15 after a shoot-out in
which three people, including two members of Spain's Guardia
Civil police, were killed.
Feher, who was born in Serbia in 1981, said he had used 18
different identities in eight States.
He said he arrived in Spain in September and agreed to be
tried in Italy for the crimes he is accused of there.
Spain has said he will not be extradited to Italy until he
has answered for the crimes he committed in Spain.
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