'A gift on its way'

He escaped from prison, traveled to France, to Mexico, returned to France, and finally arrived in Brazil. A life of adventures. It would make a great movie, and it's quite possible that his saga will be filmed.

I don't think he's a political prisoner. Italy hasn't been a dictatorship since Mussolini's time. Killing isn't part of politics.

I also don't think that killing in the name of the "communist cause" is a mitigating factor. There was no permission to kill. He took up arms and knew the risk. "Everyone was armed back then," he once said. If you go out in the rain, you're going to get wet. Every revolutionary knows that prison or death are two permanent hauntings.

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But I have everything to say against the reaction of the current president and his offspring to Battisti's arrest yesterday in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Eduardo, the diplomat son, sent a message to the Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, his far-right colleague, who is making headlines in the Italian press: "Present on the way."

The death squads from the time of the dictatorship – LeCoq in Rio and Sergio Fleury in São Paulo – spoke of "ham." "Ham on the way," they would say.

Those who celebrate the misfortune of others are sadistic. Those who use this type of language when referring to people are more harmful to society than the "gift" they are referring to.

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