Baptists spoke again, "Lula has had the courage"

BRASILIA - Back to call themselves "persecuted", defends the "courage" of Lula and defined "traumatic" for the story about him. Cesare Battisti, the terrorist was sentenced to three life terms in Italy and fled to Brazil, releases the first interview after the non-extradition by the Brazilian government.

"If Lula had decided before" Dec. 31, the last day of his presidency, "he would give him, because defeating me is tantamount to defeat him," Battisti said the newspaper Brasil de Fato. "Now, the main objective of the Brazilian right-wing is to hit" the government of President Dilma Rousseff says Battisti.

"I am a writer persecuted because" he continues, "and public image. If not I would be one of many, as many Italians left the country for the same reason. They are pursued by the Italian government" in Brazil and the system " judiciary. " "There is no country in the world in which extradition is decided by the Chief Executive.

Imagine if you decided that the Brazilian judiciary had happened in another country, eg France. It would be absurd and unthinkable," said Battisti, referring to the decision taken by the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal to consider returning in February, his case, even after the refusal to extradite him to Lula.

When asked by the reporter about what you think of the impact on the event, Battisti replied: "It 's difficult to talk about this, is the reason why I was shocked and I needed a psychiatrist." "I just have to see anything on TV in Italy is not even about me .. and now I lose control, go into a semi-conscious state - said - yesterday, for example, a Brazilian TV network has spoken to Berlusconi with its prostitutes and it was enough to hear the news 'Italy' to remain so ...

(flickering). "When my case became international, has also become a bargaining chip for many things. They have made - he concluded - a monster that has nothing to do with me."

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