# Ex-member of radical Marxist group scales balcony, escapes house arrest in Argentina

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ex-member-of-radical-marxist-group-scales-balcony-escapes-house-arrest-in-argentina/
- Published: 2026-11-11T20:42:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T20:48:17+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/11/red-brigades-leonardo-bertulazzi-escapes-house-arrest-argentina
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- Bertulazzi reportedly used a harness to escape his Buenos Aires home.
- Argentina is offering $13,000 for information leading to his recapture.
- He was awaiting extradition to Italy to serve a 27-year sentence.

## Summary

New details describe how Leonardo Bertulazzi reportedly escaped house arrest in Buenos Aires: he hid his ankle monitor in a tube of pork, climbed to a roof and used a harness and rope to descend from a fifth floor. Argentina’s security ministry confirmed he had escaped and offered a $13,000 reward for information leading to his recapture.

Bertulazzi, 74, was awaiting extradition to Italy to serve a 27-year sentence imposed in 1987 for belonging to a subversive association and an armed group. Argentina approved his extradition in July 2025, after its supreme court rejected his final appeal; his refugee status had been revoked in 2024. He was a senior member of the Red Brigades, whose attacks during Italy’s “Years of Lead” included the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro.

## Coverage

- [The Guardian: Ex-member of radical Marxist group scales balcony, escapes house arrest in Argentina](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/11/red-brigades-leonardo-bertulazzi-escapes-house-arrest-argentina)
- [BBC World: Kidnapper, 74, escapes from house arrest in Argentina by abseiling from balcony](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c933gn6710lyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)

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