ROME — The Latest on Italian fugitive militant Cesare Battisti, who has been detained in Bolivia (all times local):5:50 p.m.Italy’s premier says fugitive militant Cesare Battisti will return to Italy “in the coming hours” on a direct flight from Bolivia to serve his sentence for four murders. ___1:30 p.m.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is hailing the capture in Bolivia of Italian militant fugitive Cesare Battisti and is vowing he will face justice, in a sign that Battisti’s extradition to Italy is increasingly imminent. ___11:10 a.m.Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte says a government aircraft is heading to Bolivia and will bring captured fugitive militant Cesare Battisti back home. ___10:40 a.m.Italy is vowing to have fugitive militant Cesare Battisti extradited to Italy “as soon as possible” following his capture in Bolivia. ___10 a.m.Italy is praising the capture in Bolivia of fugitive Italian communist militant Cesare Battisti and is vowing that he will “finish his days in prison” to serve murder convictions dating from 1990.

Source: Washington Post January 13, 2019 09:46 UTC