FILE PHOTO: Italian former leftist guerrilla Cesare Battisti leaves the headquarters of the Federal Police in Sao Paulo March 13, 2015. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ordered the arrest of Cesare Battisti, an Italian former left-wing guerrilla convicted of murder in his country, opening the way for his extradition, Globo TV reported on Thursday.
Justice Luiz Fux revoked an injunction he granted last year preventing Battisti's extradition, and ruled it was up to Brazil's president to decide his fate, Globo said. Battisti's lawyer Igor Tamasauskas told Reuters he had received the decision but had not yet read it, though he believed his client's arrest had been ordered.
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