The son of new Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday suggested that the government
is set to keep a promise to extradite of Italian former leftist
terrorist Cesare Battisti.
"The gift is coming! Thanks for the support, the right is
becoming stronger," Eduardo Bolsonaro, a federal deputy, said in
response to a tweet by Italian Deputy Premier and Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini congratulating Bolsonaro senior on his
election victory.
Battisti, whose extradition was halted by former president
Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, is wanted to serve out several life
sentences for murders in the so-called 'Years of Lead' of
leftist and rightist terrorism.
Battisti, who fled to Brazil from France where he had become
a crime writer, after the end of the Mitterand Doctrine, has
always denied committing murder.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
