Let's look at the facts: Baptists, sentenced with final sentences 4 murders (2 committed materially e 2 in competition), escapes into 1981 and finds refuge in France. After a few years of wanderings as a fugitive he returns to France. Here he is arrested but manages to benefit from the so-called “Mitterrand doctrine”: fugitives are not extradited if it is believed that they are wanted "for acts of a violent but politically inspired nature". Moreover in these (quasi) forty years Battisti has always declared himself innocent, completely unrelated to the facts for which he was convicted, declaring that he was persecuted by the Italian state for political reasons. So far we have a murderer on the run who claims to be innocent and benefits (unduly) of a sort of political refugee status. But the unusual thing is the fact that it was created, over the years, a movement of opinion, cross-border, That he “bought” his version of events (therefore an intellectual persecuted for his political ideas, victim of "sham" trials and therefore unjustly convicted). And from Fred Vargas to Erri de Luca, da Daniel Pennac a Bernard Henry Levy, everyone to publicly support Battisti by denouncing the injustices he suffered. And the list is long. In the 2004 was published in France on “Manifesto to free Battisti”, signed by dozens of intellectuals, in which a conspiracy against poor Battisti was clearly evoked, hatched by those who had an interest in silencing it forever.
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source – https://www.nicolaporro.it/quegli-intellettuali-dalla-parte-dei-terroristi/