Former Red Brigades Kidnapper Escapes Argentine House Arrest via Abseiling Balcony
74-year-old Italian militant Leonardo Bertulazzi fled house arrest in Buenos Aires by rappelling from a fifth-floor balcony just before his extradition.
POLICY WIRE — Buenos Aires, Argentina — A 74-year-old Italian national convicted of a historic kidnapping has vanished while under house arrest, executing a daring cinematic escape.
Leonardo Bertulazzi, a former member of the Marxist guerrilla organization known as the Red Brigades, utilized a harness to rappel from a balcony on the fifth floor of his apartment building.
The dramatic break-out occurred just one day before Bertulazzi was scheduled to be extradited back to Italy to face justice for his past crimes.
Bertulazzi was found guilty for his role in a kidnapping orchestrated by the far-left militant group during the 1970s.
Authorities in Argentina are currently searching for the former militant, who remains on the run following his vertical escape.
Reporting by Policy-Wire (PW)
