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State determined to bring Ben-Ivgi to justice at home
By Aryeh Dayan

The State Prosecutor's Office has decided to continue proceedings for the extradition from Argentina of Moshe Ben-Ivgi, who murdered cab driver Dennis Roth in 1994. The decision comes despite the difficult conditions imposed by the Argentine court for Ben-Ivgi's extradition.

Ben-Ivgi was on furlough from prison in May of last year and fled from Israel to Argentina using a forged passport. He was due to be released from prison only in 2015, but the Argentine court stipulated that he must serve no more than four year if extradited.
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The State Prosecutor's Office decided to go ahead with the request even though Gilah Roth, the wife of the murdered man, was opposed. She requested that he remain in an Argentine jail and serve the full term.

Ben-Ivgi was arrested in Buenos Aires on October 16, 2004, and a court there decide subsequently that he could be extradited to Israel on condition that he only serve a maximum of five years. This is the sentence that was imposed on him when he was no longer a minor and he robbed a grocery store during an earlier furlough in 1998.

Ben-Ivgi was 14 when he murdered Rot and was sentenced in Israel to 16 years' imprisonment. Under Israeli law, he would also have to face another trial for fleeing. But under Argentine law, a minor of age 14 cannot be held criminally responsible for his acts.

The State Prosecutor's Office yesterday issued a statement saying that there would be more disadvantages to withdrawing the request than continuing with it, since the murderer would then be walking around free and posing a danger to the public. The Roth family's lawyer responded by saying that the true meaning of the decision was that Ben-Ivgi would not sit one day more for the murder he had committed
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