Cesare Battisti, 64, was extradited after being found in Santa Cruz de La Sierra on Saturday in an international police operation.

Battisti was two years into a 12-year sentence in Italy when he escaped from prison in 1981.

He was subsequently sentenced in absentia to life in jail for four murders carried out during the 1970s.

Battisti had lived for years in Brazil but vanished after an arrest warrant was issued last month.

The Falcon 900 plane landed at Ciampino airport on Monday morning, and Battisti was escorted off the plane by a dozen police officers.

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