Italian Communist Militant Battisti Confesses to Four 1970s Murders

Italian Communist Militant Battisti Confesses to Four 1970s Murders
Italian communist militant Cesare Battisti steps off a plane coming from Bolivia in Rome on Jan. 14, 2019. Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images
John Smithies
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An Italian communist terrorist has admitted to murdering four people in the late 1970s, according to local media reports.

Cesare Battisti, 64, was convicted in absentia of murdering a policeman and a prison guard, and participating in the killings of a butcher and a jeweler who had defended themselves against left-wing militants.

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