Cesare Battisti: “I’m sick, now I’ve changed”

“Tell me where in the world I am? It’s all over now, I’m 64, I’m sick, I’ve changed.”

These are the first words of Cesare Battisti, just arrived in the prison of Massama (Oristano), according to what former Sardinian parliamentarian Mauro Pili, who learned it from qualified sources, told ANSA. Battisti spoke with several prison officers and had a meeting with the director of the prison. France, we will examine other requests from Italy. "All requests - continues the spokesperson of Minister Belloubet - are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The Ministry of Justice verifies in particular, before transmitting the extradition request to the French judicial authorities for execution, the regularity of the request, in particular with regard to the statute of limitations of the facts and the political nature of the crime". First visit of a lawyer in prison - First visit to the prison in Massama (Oristano) for Cesare Battisti. According to what ANSA learned this morning, the former terrorist, who is in the Sardinian institution, met with his lawyer, who arrived for the meeting. Medical visits immediately followed by a meeting with the educator. These are, according to what ANSA has learned, the first formalities completed by Cesare Battisti in the Massama prison (Oristano). The former terrorist, who arrived in Italy yesterday after being captured in Bolivia and was immediately transferred to Sardinia, met with his lawyer Davide Steccanella. "I didn't know him, I saw him today for the first time." He only said a few words to the journalists waiting outside the prison for the lawyer Davide Steccanella, at the end of the meeting with the former terrorist in the Massama prison (Oristano). The meeting lasted about an hour. The lawyer limited himself to explaining that Battisti had "a very tough day" yesterday, that he is his client and that to "judge him humanely" an hour is not enough. Meeting with the prison chaplain - In addition to having had meetings with the director and the educator of the Massama prison (Oristano), Cesare Battisti met with the facility's chaplain Don Gabriele Cossu. "An extradition decree was executed against Battisti and a dutiful act of justice was carried out by the State, which I applaud. I reserve the right to verify, and evaluate an intervention, whether there were elements of spectacularization and whether language consistent with the Constitution was used in the institutional setting". This is what the National Guarantor of Detainees, Mauro Palma, underlined, when questioned by ANSA, regarding the management of the return to Italy of Cesare Battisti and more generally recalling the need for institutions to use "language consistent with the Constitutional Charter".