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Cesare Battisti was arrested in Bolivia this Saturday (12). The Italian's extradition was authorized in December last year by former president Michel Temer
Although Italy has sent a plane to Bolivia to pick up Cesare Battisti, according to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Sunday morning (13), the terrorist must first pass through Brazil. All because there is already a ready process for the terrorist's extradition, authorized in December of last year by former president Michel Temer.
The Brazilian government received preliminary information that there would be no extradition agreement between Bolivia and Italy, for example.
Minister Augusto Heleno, of the Institutional Security Office (GSI), said that the Italian will be taken from Bolivia to Brazil on a Brazilian plane. The plane will make a stopover in Brazil and then continue on to Italy.
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The Supreme Court reaffirmed: citizenship is born with the person.
- New legal front opened
- Processes can still be filed.
- Individual assessment before any decision.
The minister spoke to the press after meeting with President Jair Bolsonaro at Palácio da Alvorada. The ministers of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, and of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo, also participated in the meeting.
In the morning, when it learned of Battisti's capture, Italy sent a plane with police officers and members of the Italian secret services headed to Bolivia.
Cesare Battisti was arrested on Saturday night (12) in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia.
Italy expects him to be 'promptly handed over' Italian President Sergio Mattarella issued a statement saying he expected Battisti to be “promptly handed over”. The Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, thanked President Bolsonaro for his collaboration, as well as the Bolivian authorities, and stated that Battisti is “a criminal who does not deserve a comfortable life on the beach, but to end his days in prison”. Italy's Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, declared that the fugitive “will now be handed over to Italy” to serve his sentence. “Whoever makes a mistake must pay, and Battisti will pay too.”
