Di Stefano, who was born in the small Italian town of Petrella Tifernina, moved to Britain as a boy and attended school in Wollaston, in Northamptonshire.
Last year the French government refused to extradite Marina Petrella, a former Red Brigades terrorist (Carla Bruni, the president's wife, went to Mrs Petrella's hospital bed to give her the good news).