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74-Year-Old on House Arrest Rappels From Apartment
Newser • • world
Key Points:
- Leonardo Bertulazzi, a 74-year-old Italian man under house arrest in Buenos Aires, escaped by rappelling from his fifth-floor apartment using a harness after sabotaging his ankle monitor.
- Bertulazzi was convicted in absentia for a 1977 kidnapping linked to the abduction and murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and was awaiting extradition to Italy.
- A former member of the Marxist guerrilla group Red Brigades, Bertulazzi was arrested in Argentina in 2002, granted refugee status, and re-arrested in 2024 before his escape.
- Argentine authorities have launched a nationwide manhunt following his daring escape, with suspicion raised when his ankle monitor stopped showing movement despite transmitting body temperature data.
