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Montevideo, November 14th 2026 - 01:27 UTC

Tag: Leonardo Bertulazzi

  • Saturday, November 14th 2026 - 01:01 UTC

    Un exbrigadista italiano se descuelga de un quinto piso en Buenos Aires para evitar su extradición

    “My father escaped because he had no choice. We feared that once extradited he would spend the rest of his life in prison, without the right to a new trial,” his daughter

    Leonardo Bertulazzi, a 74-year-old former member of Italy’s Red Brigades, escaped from house arrest in Buenos Aires on Tuesday by abseiling with a rope and harness from a fifth floor, after leaving his electronic ankle tag on a homemade device that simulated a human leg, to avoid imminent extradition to Italy. Argentine police on Friday arrested a Uruguayan man and a Salvadoran woman, identified as suspected accomplices, as they were about to cross into Uruguay.

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  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 09:31 UTC

    Former Red Brigades fighter arrested in Buenos Aires

    It remains to be seen whether Bertulazzi can now be extradited to Italy

    Argentine authorities Thursday arrested former Italian far-left Red Brigades guerrilla fighter Leonardo Bertulazzi who had been a fugitive since the 1980s and was residing in the South American country as an asylum seeker. The suspect's detention was made possible through a decision by Buenos Aires to strip him of his refugee status.