A 52-year-old man wanted by Italian authorities for his alleged involvement in the deadly 1969 bombing of a Milan bank filed a defamation suit Friday with the Tokyo District Court against two newspapers and two magazine publishers.
Delfo Zorzi, who has lived in Japan for over 20 years, is married to a Japanese woman and obtained Japanese nationality in 1989. His Japanese name is Roi Hagen.
He is demanding 22 million yen in compensation and published apologies from the four firms — the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Shogakukan Inc. and Shinchosha Co.