Bolsonaro receives the Italian government through the extradition of Battisti, says Planalto | Politics

Sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy, Battisti was arrested Saturday (12) in Bolivia.He was on the run since December, after his extradition from Brazil authorized by the President of the time, Michel Temer

Delivered by Bolivia to the authorities of his country, Battisti landed on Monday (14) in Rome.According to the Italian media, he said that the head of the counterterrorism service of country "now knows it's going to go to jail".

According to the statement published by the Plbadto, Salvini pointed out in a telephone conversation with Bolsonaro that the extradition of Battisti "would not have materialized" without "the intervention" of the Brazilian president.

The Plbadto also indicated that, according to Bolsonaro, Battisti's return to his country of origin "symbolizes the end of impunity" in Brazil and abroad.

The 64-year-old Italian was among the armed proletarians of communism and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 for four murders committed in the 1970s.

• Chronology: Conviction for murder in Italy, escape and prison in Bolivia against a prison guard, a police officer, a neo-fascist militant and a Milan jeweler

Battisti claims he has never killed anyone and claims to be a victim of political persecution. He remained 37 years on the run from the Italian authorities, with periods of arrest and politico-judicial struggles to escape the Italian judicial system. Battisti escaped from his country in the 1980s, lived in France, Brazil and, more recently, was hidden in Bolivia. Cesare Battisti arrives in Italy with a solid security system

Cesare Battisti arrives in Italy with a solid security system

Cesare Battisti arrives in Italy with a solid security system. Left and right governments wanted Battisti back in the country to serve his sentence. March 1996, by a joint action of the Brazilian Federal Police and Italian and French agents, and two years later, the then Minister of Justice, Tarso Genro, granted refuge

In 2007, Italy requested the extradition of Battisti and, At the time, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had refused extradition.

In September 2017, the Italian government asked President Michel Temer to review Brazil's decision concerning Battisti.

At the end of last year, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) asked the STF to give priority to the trial likely to result in extradition.

One month after the PGR's request, Minister Luiz Fux ordered the arrest of the Italian and paved the way for extradition in early December.

In the decision, the Minister authorized the arrest but declared that it would be up to the president to extradite the Italian or not, because the political decisions would not compete with the judiciary. The next day, the then president, Michel Temer, authorized the extradition of Battisti.

Since then, the PF has launched a series of operations to stop the Italian. By the end of December, the PS had already completed more than 30 actions.

Battisti denies any involvement in homicides and claims to be a victim of political persecution. In an interview in 2014 with Mario Sergio Conti's Diálogos program at GloboNews, he declared that he had not killed anyone.

President Jair Bolsonaro received Monday morning a call from the Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, who thanked Brazil for its commitment to solve the problem. Battisti case, pointing out that without the intervention of President Bolsonaro, extradition would not have occurred and that the Brazilian president enjoyed an excellent image among the Italian people. According to President Bolsonaro, the conclusion of the Battisti case is an encouraging sign that Brazil will no longer accept criminal transvestite political persecution, insofar as it symbolizes the end of national impunity and international.