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Red Brigades Kidnapper, 74, Abseils From Balcony To Escape House Arrest
Hermann Luyken, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 74-year-old Italian convicted over a 1977 Red Brigades kidnapping has fled house arrest in Buenos Aires by lowering himself from a fifth-floor balcony with a harness. Leonardo Bertulazzi had rigged his ankle tag to keep sending readings after he removed it, so officers only grew suspicious when it stopped moving. He was awaiting extradition to Italy, and a nationwide manhunt is now under way.
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