Brazil won’t extradite Italian fugitive Battisti (AP)

Written on December 31, 2010 by Editor - World News

FILE - In this March 19, 2007 file photo, Italian leftist activist fugitive Cesare Battisti, center, is escorted by Federal Police officers as he arrives at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil. Battisti was granted political asylum by Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, according to a statement released by the president's office, but the case must still be heard by the nation's Supreme Court, the top justice said. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, file)AP - Brazil's president decided Friday not to extradite an Italian fugitive and former leftist rebel convicted of four murders carried out in the late 1970s, despite strong words from Italy, which wants the man to pay for his alleged crimes.



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