A 74-year-old Italian man found guilty of a kidnapping carried out by a far-left militant group in the 1970s has escaped while under house arrest in Argentina and is on the run.
Bertulazzi, a former member of the Red Brigades, left the residence where he was confined after interfering with the electronic ankle monitor meant to keep track of him.
The escape was not registered at once. He had prised the device open and absconded, yet it continued to transmit body-temperature measurements as if he were still wearing it.
Experts who later examined the monitor found that the tampering was intended to stop an alarm from sounding once he removed it.
The flight puts back on the run a man tied to political killings that scarred Italy a generation ago, and it shows how a court-ordered monitor failed to flag his absence.
In the kidnapping, the victim was held in a flat for 54 days before being shot. The body was abandoned in the boot of a Renault car in the centre of Rome.
Bertulazzi was first arrested after using a false passport to cross into Argentina from neighbouring Chile in 2002.
The BBC reported that he gained refugee status in Argentina in 2004 and was arrested again in 2024.
He was under house arrest when he fled and is now being sought.