Italian foreign ministry sources confirmed the arrest. According to the Italian foreign ministry sources, Battisti was spotted "with certainty" in Santa Cruz last week and an operation was prepared with local authorities. This is a problem that will be decided in the coming hours," the Italian foreign ministry source said. Bolsonaro's son, Brazilian lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, tweeted in Italian with a picture of Battisti: "Brazil is no longer the land of bandits. Battisti escaped from an Italian prison after being convicted in 1979 of belonging to an outlawed leftist group, the Armed Proletarians for Communism.

Source: Bangkok Post January 13, 2019 10:18 UTC