Saturday, January 22, 2011

Battisti, Brazil The EU is silent for now: "It is a fact bilateral"

"The letter which the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano sent the links of Brazil Dilma Rousseff has been read and at this moment there is no response from the presidency." Two lines of formal statement, ANSA entrusted with which the President of Brazil says the letter sent by President Napolitano in which he asks him to deliver Cesare Battisti to Italy.

In the letter, earlier today from the Republic, it is stressed that the refusal to extradite the terrorist Cesare Battisti "is" a source of disappointment and bitterness for Italy. " "Was it not fully understood - wrote the head of state - the need for justice in my country and the families of victims of brutal and inexcusable attacks, and wounded in those attacks and barely survived." It also says Napolitano, "a need for justice-related efforts in which the democratic institutions of my country and the national community were able to react to the threat and impact of terrorism, managing to defeat him in accordance with the rule of law" .

"They are not acceptable - insists Napolitano - removal, denials or romantic readings of bloody events of those years, and responsibilities can not be forgotten." Even before the letter, the EU Commission continues to believe that the story is "a bilateral issue between Italy and Brazil." It responds well to the bipartisan motion passed by the European Parliament calling upon Brussels to act on the Brazilian authorities to further the process of extradition.

Battisti. Alfano: extradition law to protect justice extradition back to ask the Minister of Justice Alfano, noting that "in recent days the Italian association of victims of terrorist crimes has indicated to Parliament to demand justice. 'S why we ask extradition on the basis of the bilateral treaty with Brazil and the principles of international law.

" Meanwhile, not subsiding, the controversy over the boycott of the books in the schools of the authors pro-Cesare Battisti, requested by the regional education Venetian: "We never ban books - said Andrea Tomat, president of the Foundation Campiello - Freedom of thought and flow of ideas are the foundations of democracy and the foundations of our civil life.

" "The fact that I am one of the most in favor of a harsh sentence, does not change the sdifesa of freedom of thought"

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