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19 November 2019Ergastolo confirmed for the former Pac terrorist Cesare Battisti: the first criminal section of the Cassation, after a council chamber held today, declared the appeal presented by the defense against the order with which, on 17 May, the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Milan had denied the commutation of the sentence of life imprisonment in that of thirty years of imprisonment.

The decision of the first penal section of the Court of Cassation was taken this morning, following the hearing in the council chamber. The questions raised with the appeal, rejected, "concerned - underlines the Supreme Court - the persistent effectiveness of the agreement of commutation of the penalty stipulated between the Italian and Brazilian Authorities, in view of the extradition from Brazil, then not happened, as well as the legitimacy of the procedure culminating in the expulsion of the condemned from Bolivia ". The Court of Cassation considered the Court of Appeal's decision to be correct.