Former Red Brigades member Leonardo Bertulazzi, a fugitive since 1980, was arrested in Argentina and will be extradited to Italy following the revocation of the refugee status he had obtained in 2004.

Bertulazzi must serve 27 years for kidnapping, subversive association and armed gang.

Already arrested in 2002 in Buenos Aires, following a complex investigation conducted by the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police, together with the Digos of Genoa and Interpol, he was released a few months later.

Bertulazzi, a member of the Genoese column of the Red Brigades, was guilty, among other crimes, of participating in the kidnapping of naval engineer Piero Costa, which took place in Genoa on 12 January 1977.

The kidnapping was aimed at acquiring financial means to finance terrorist activity: 50 million lire were then used to purchase the apartment at Via Montalcini 8 in Rome, where Aldo Moro was held prisoner for the period of his kidnapping.

The Argentine Police carried out the restrictive measure in the presence of Italian Intelligence and managers and operators of the police forces serving at the Central Directorate of Prevention Police, the Genoa Digos and the Service for International Police Cooperation, who have been present in Buenos Aires for several weeks.

(Online Union)

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