A 74-year-old Italian man who was being held under house arrest in Argentina is reportedly on the run—after having rappelled from the fifth-floor Buenos Aires apartment where he was staying. The BBC reports Leonardo Bertulazzi, who was convicted in absentia for a 1977 kidnapping that helped fund the abduction and killing of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, had been awaiting extradition to Italy. Bertulazzi allegedly sabotaged his ankle monitor so it kept sending body-temperature data even after he removed it, then used a harness to flee via his balcony. Officials grew suspicious when the device stopped moving.
The BBC reports Bertulazzi—a former member of the Marxist guerrilla group the Red Brigades—was arrested in 2002 after entering Argentina from Chile but obtained refugee status and lived in the country until 2024, when he was re-arrested. His extradition was said to be imminent. Argentina has launched a nationwide manhunt.