“Italian exkommunist to be grasped in Brazil”
“A judge in Brazil has ordered that the left activist Cesare Battisti to be arrested and deported to Italy, where he is convicted for the four murders in the 1970s.”
“Italy has long argued that the 63-year-old should be extradited to their home country. The brazilian expresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, however, chose to give him the protection status, and in 2011, he was released from prison, which led to strong diplomatic tension between Brazil and Italy.”
“The incoming högerpresidenten Jair Bolsonaro has promised to make sure that Battisti can be expelled.”
“Battisti was sentenced in 1993 in absentia to life imprisonment in Italy for participation in four political murder. He lived then already in France, where he received asylum and began a successful career as a writer. Since 2004 France agreed to extradite him, he took refuge in Brazil.”
“he has admitted that He was a member of a revolutionary communist organization in Italy, but has denied involvement in the killings.”
