Cesare Battisti is an italian former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism, a far-left militant and terrorist group which committed acts of illegality and crimes in Italy during the period known as "anni di piombo". Sentenced for 4 homicides to life sentence in Italy. Currently he's a writer and he lives as a free man in Brazil: after he flew to France and Mexico he became a fiction author having written 15 books. Battisti was sentenced to 12 years under the charge of participating in an armed group and of the material killing of 2 people and being the mandate for other 2 homicides. He fled to France, where he received protection under the Mitterrand doctrine. Later, he was tried in absentia based on testimony in Pietro Mutti's trial implicating him in four assassinations, bringing the total of charges against him to 36. He was given a sentence of life in prison. After the de facto repeal of the Mitterrand doctrine in 2002, Battisti entered in Brazil with fake documents to avoid a possible extradition. He was arrested in Rio de Janeiro on 18 March 2007 by Brazilian and French police officers. [More at Wikipedia]

December 18th, 1954 in Cisterna di Latina (Age 69)