Fugitive Italian guerrilla Leonardo Bertulazzi held in Argentina

Police arrest a man wanted in Italy for decades for a kidnapping carried out by the Red Brigades.

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Leonardo Bertulazzi, who for years had refugee status in Argentina, is facing a 27-year prison sentence in Italy after almost 44 years on the run.

Now aged 72, Bertulazzi was sentenced in absentia in Italy in the 1970s for kidnapping Pietro Costa, a naval engineer from a wealthy ship-owning family in Genoa.

He was first arrested by Buenos Aires police in 2002, after reportedly entering the country from Chile on a false passport, but he was released a few months later and his extradition was blocked.

Leonardo Bertulazzi was given refugee status two years later but that was revoked when Argentina's right-wing president, Javier Milei, came to power.

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