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Immediate Battisti extradition if elected - Bolsonaro

Confirms vow on former terrorist

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Sao Paulo, October 16 - Brazilian far-right candidate and favourite in the presidential run-off Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday if elected he will "immediately" order the extradition of Italian former leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti.
    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.
   

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