Argentina searches for former Red Brigades member after house-arrest escape

Argentina is searching for a former member of Italy's Red Brigades who escaped house arrest in Buenos Aires while awaiting extradition. Published reporting and Buenos Aires Times reported the escape on 11 November, with the latter citing confirmation from the National Security Ministry.

Leonardo Bertulazzi, 74, was awaiting transfer to Italy to serve a 27-year sentence. Published reporting reported that police officials described an escape from a fifth-floor apartment using a rope and harness. Those operational details are attributed police accounts, not an independently reconstructed sequence.

Buenos Aires Times, carrying published reporting, said the ministry offered a reward of 20 million Argentine pesos for information leading to his recapture. The reports described an ongoing search at publication; they do not establish his present whereabouts or a later arrest.