There is no search operation ongoing to arrest the deputy (PL-SP), fugitive in the European country since last Thursday (5). She left Brazil for ten years in prison, determined by (Federal Supreme Court).
According to ambassador Renato Mosca, ahead of the Brazilian diplomatic representation in Italy, the arrest warrant, issued by the request of Brazil, provides for detention in public places.
“Even if there is knowledge that she would be in a certain place, inside a house, there is no search warrant. The police [italiana] You cannot enter a house to remove it and arrest it. She will have to be arrested as she is in a public place, “he told Sheet This Monday (9). “This makes the situation difficult, but there is no other way.”
Mosca states that from the deputy, something that fits exclusively to the Italian police. The Fiumicino Airport, on the 5th, happened about four hours before the interpol arrest was disseminated. “The detention warning had not yet arrived in Italy at the time of the parliamentarian’s entrance, which allowed her unimpeded circulation.”
The deputy can be arrested if, as I said to CNN Brazil, to record its presence in the country. “I will declare my data to get the documents. I’m here in good faith. I’m here because of political persecution,” said Zambelli.
Brazil’s dialogue with Italy takes place on two fronts. An attaché is in contact with the Italian police forces, while the ambassador keeps conversations with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the interior. Mosca stated that the theme of the extradition of the congressman, whose process can only start after she is detained, was not yet part of the conversations.
However, the recent history of cases of such type, including citizens with double nationality, that in Italy it would be “untouchable” for having Italian citizenship. According to Mosca, bilateral agreements between the two countries on judicial topics have been effective, including extradition, in force since the 1990s.
“We have 14 extradition processes in Italy since 2024, four are double nationality individuals. This year we have had the extradition of an Italian-Brazilian,” he says. “Italian citizenship does not make people in debt to justice untouchable.”
Unlike Brazil, which does not allow the extradition of its citizens who have committed crimes, Italian, in its article 26, provides that the extradition of a citizen may be allowed “when expressly provided for in international conventions”.
It is a process that usually lasts months and that undergoes political endorsement, as well as legal. In addition to possessing Italian citizenship, Zambelli stated that, in, intends to seek ultra-right leaders, including the first minister.
The ambassador evaluates that, despite the common ideological field between Zambelli and members of the Meloni government, this should not be a criterion for the final decision of Italy. “I see no affinity between a government dedicated to fighting crime and a person convicted with a broad right of defense for typified crimes. Cybercrime, system invasion, have maximum relevance in Italy.”
In addition to, according to him, overcoming the case of terrorist Cesare Battisti, who benefited from a decision of the president and spent years in Brazil as a fugitive from Italian justice – such extradition came out in 2018, in government – the bilateral relationship between countries has been guided by collaboration. He cites the cases of the mobster Rocco Moraitá and Vincenzo Pasquino, both arrested in Brazil and extradited to Italy in 2022 and 2024.
“There are a number of elements that contribute to this case of the deputy to have a favorable outcome. Not to Brazil or Italy, but to justice,” says Mosca.
