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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Accused of killings in his native Italy, militant 1970s leftist Cesare Battisti reinvented himself in France as a celebrated writer of police thrillers. But Paris got tougher on suspected terrorists and Battisti went on the run again in 2004, disappearing, apparently with the help of a French "support committee."
Disappearing, that is, until Sunday, when police tracking a woman bringing Battisti money found the fugitive novelist near Brazil's famed Copacabana Beach.
An extradition request was immediately sent to Brazil's Supreme Court, which could send him back to Italy, said a spokesman for Brazilian federal police, Bruno Ramos.
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