Battisti will be held alone in a high-security cell for six months.
Italian Cesare Battisti, 64, will serve his sentence in Rebibbia prison, in Rome, in solitary confinement, in a high-security area reserved for terrorists and in isolation for a period of six months; Battisti arrived this Monday (14) at Rome Ciampino Airport, in the Italian capital; he got off the plane without handcuffs and was received by agents of the mobile operational group of the prison police.
Brazil Agency - Italian Cesare Battisti, 64, will serve his sentence in Rebibbia prison in Rome, in solitary confinement in a high-security area reserved for terrorists, for a period of six months.
Battisti arrived this Monday (14) at Rome Ciampino Airport, in the Italian capital. Wearing jeans and a brown jacket, he got off the plane without handcuffs and was greeted by agents from the prison police's mobile operational group.
The Italian was found last Saturday (12) on the streets of Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia, by Bolivian agents in partnership with Italians. According to a video taken at the time of the arrest, he was wearing a beard, sunglasses, jeans and a blue t-shirt. He did not resist, did not present any documents and answered some questions in Portuguese.
Sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy, Battisti was convicted of the murder of four people in the 1970s, when he was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism, an offshoot of the Red Brigades. He maintains his innocence.
In Brazil since 2004, the Italian was arrested three years later. The Italian government requested his extradition, which was accepted by the Supreme Federal Court. However, on the last day of his term, in December 2010, then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decided that Battisti should remain in Brazil, and this decision was upheld by the Supreme Court.