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The former Italian Communist militant Cesare Battisti, wanted for four murders during the '70s and captured Saturday in Bolivia, arrived on Monday in Rome.
According to the authorities, the fugitive 64-year-old was extradited after being detained in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in an international police operation.
After an escape from prison in Italy, Battisti lived for several years in Brazil but he disappeared again after a month in prison had been issued.
The Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, confirmed that Battisti was handed over to the Italian authorities and that a rented plane left Bolivia. "The plane with Cesare Battisti has just taken off to Italy, I am proud and moved," he wrote on Twitter.
It was Battisti arrested by a special Interpol team Saturday, around 17:00 local time (21:00 in Lisbon) on a street in Santa Cruz de La Sierra. He was alone and wore dark glasses and a fake beard, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Battisti did not resist or try to escape, the authorities said.
The aircraft had taken off from Vira Viru in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, 850 kilometers from the capital of Bolivia, La Paz. Matteo Salvini was waiting for Cesare Battisti at the airport and broadcast live via social networks, arriving in Rome.
Just landed, Cesare Battisti brought to the prison of Rebibbia, where it will be trapped in the high security circuit reserved for terrorists. In the first six months you will be in isolation during the day.
The fugitive became a successful writer
In 1979, Battisti was convicted of belonging to a extreme left group outlaws in Italy, the proletarians armed by communism. Two years later he escaped from prison.
He would later be convicted in his absence for direct or indirect four murders. In 1993, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the killings between 1977 and 1979 of four people: two policemen, a butcher and a jeweler. In two of them, he was convicted as the author of the murder. In others, as an organizer.
Battisti admits to being part of the CAP but denies responsibility for the murders. After escaping from the Italian prison, escaped to Mexico. Since 1990, he has lived in France, where the then president François Mitterrand refused extradition. In France, he became a famous writer and published police novels in which he analyzed his experience in the armed struggle.
The Italian arrived in Brazil in 2004. In November 2009, the Federal Supreme Court authorized the extradition requested by Italy. However, on the last day of his term on December 31, 2010, then President Lula da Silva denied extradition and authorized Baptists to stay in Brazil.
Last month he disappeared again after issuing an arrest warrant.
According to El País, Cesare Battisti says that he spent his life working as a writer and journalist and this it is not "the monster" that the Italian Government describes.
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