Battisti arrives in Italy after almost 40 years on the run and will be taken to prison in Rome
Terrorist Cesare Battisti is already on Italian soil. The Italian landed at Ciampino airport, in Roma.
After 38 years on the run, 15 of which were in Brazil with the help of Lula and his gang, he will finally serve his sentence.
For the next six months, Battisti will be in a cell alone, in solitary confinement, and then he will be sent to the terrorist ward.
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Cesare Battisti came to Roma, in Italy, on Monday morning (14) — Photo: Alberto Pizzoli / AFP
The plane with Italian Cesare Battisti arrived at Ciampino airport, in Rome, this Monday (14) at 8:40 am Brasília time. He got off the plane escorted by police and without handcuffs. Battisti was handed over by Bolivian police to Italian authorities in the city of Santa Cruz de La Sierra, where he was arrested on Saturday (12).
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Ministers of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, and of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, accompany the disembarkation of Cesare Battisti — Photo: Alberto Pizzoli / AFP
Battisti will be taken to a prison on the outskirts of Rome. Along the way, patrols will close the access points so that the convoy can reach the location quickly, according to the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini went to the airport to receive Battisti, whom he calls a “communist murderer”.
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Cesare Battisti gets off the plane upon arriving in Rome, Italy this Monday (14) — Photo: Reproduction/ Facebook Matteo Salvini
The Italian, who was part of the Armed Proletarians for Communism group, was sentenced to life in prison for four murders committed in the 1970s. He claims he never killed anyone and says he is a victim of political persecution. Something that even the Italian left disagrees with.
