Brazil’s President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro talked Monday (Nov. 5) with Italy’s Ambassador to Brazil Antonio Bernardini about the situation of 63-year-old Italian national Cesare Battisti. Convicted in Italy of terrorism and four murders, Battisti lives in São Paulo.
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Angelino Alfano said that Italy is still giving “maximum attention” to the developments in the case surrounding former Italian activist Cesare Battisti in Brazilian courts. The chancellor spoke Thursday (Feb 22
Brazil's Supreme Court decided Tuesday (Aug 8) to authorize the extradition of an Israeli national convicted by a Tel-Aviv court of the murder of a Palestine man. Yehoshua Elizur escaped in 2005, before his sentence was issued, and was arrested in São Paulo two years ago.