Convicted Nazi prison guard loses appeal to retain Canadian citizenship
Michael Seifert will still fight extradition in the Supreme Court
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | 2:13 PM PT
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An 83-year-old Vancouver man has lost another legal round in his effort to avoid extradition to Italy, where he was convicted of crimes committed during the Second World War.
A Federal Court judge upheld a decision Tuesday to strip Michael Seifert of his Canadian citizenship, ruling that he misrepresented himself when he first came to Canada.
Michael Seifert has lived in Vancouver in recent years.
(CBC)
On Nov. 24, 2000, Seifert was convicted in absentia by an Italian court on charges that he raped, tortured and murdered nine Jews at a German concentration camp in Italy during the Second World War.
In August 2003, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled Seifert should be extradited but he is currently appealing that ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada.
His lawyers have been fighting a legal battle to keep him in Canada for several years, at times claiming he is not mentally competent and that the trial in Italy did not meet Canadian judicial standards.
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