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    "prose": "Leonardo Bertulazzi escaped house arrest in Buenos Aires.[^1] He used a harness and rope to climb down from a fifth-floor apartment.[^2] He tampered with his electronic ankle monitor during the escape.[^3]\n\nHe got out shortly before his planned extradition to Italy.[^4]\n\n## The sentence\n\nBertulazzi is a former member of Italy's Red Brigades.[^5] The Red Brigades were a far-left armed group active in the 1970s and 1980s.[^6]\n\nHe was sentenced to 27 years in prison in Italy in 1987.[^7] He was convicted in absentia for involvement in the kidnapping and death of Aldo Moro, Al Jazeera reported.[^8]\n\nHe has not served it. The sentence is 39 years old.\n\n## Twenty-four years in Argentina\n\nHe was arrested in Argentina in 2002.[^9] Argentina revoked his refugee status in 2024.[^10] He had been under house arrest in Buenos Aires since August of that year.[^11]\n\nArgentina's Supreme Court approved his extradition in 2025.[^12] The second report dates the approval to July of that year.[^13]\n\nSo the state held him at home for more than two years, won the right to send him back, and lost him before it did.\n\n## The search\n\nArgentina's Security Ministry offered a reward of 20 million pesos for him.[^14]",
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