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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9835
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/italy

EP backs Rome in Cesare Battisti affair

Brussels, 06/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - Italy is not alone to face Brazil in the Cesare Battisti affair. On Thursday 5 February, the European Parliament adopted a joint resolution on the refusal by Brazilian authorities to extradite Cesare Battisti. The far left Italian activist Battisti was condemned in absentia by the Italian justice in four homicide cases. He first of all fled to France and then to Brazil where he was arrested in March 2007. In early January, Brazil declared Cesare...

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