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Brazil’s Bolsonaro to Authorize Extradition of Italy’s Cesare Battisti

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, said he told Italian ambassador, Antonio Bernardini on Monday that he will do ‘everything legally in my power’ to extradite Italian convicted killer Cesare Battisti, back to his country to serve a life sentence for four assassinations.

"He [ex-president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva] decided, during the last day of his presidency, to give refugee status to an Italian terrorist named Cesare Battisti. We will do whatever is legal to return this terrorist to Italy," Subscribe to our Premium Membership Plan. Already Subscribed?

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