Red Brigades fugitive Leonardo
Bertulazzi has been arrested in Argentina and will be extradited
to Italy after the refugee status he had obtained in 2004 was
revoked.
Bertulazzi needs to serve a 27-year prison term in Italy after
he was convicted on charges of abduction, subversive association
and belonging to an armed group.
A fugitive since 1980, he was responsible for the abduction of
engineer Piero Costa in Genoa in 1977 as a member of the Red
Brigades (BR) terrorist group.
The office of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni late on Thursday
expressed "deep appreciation" to Argentinian authorities for
carrying out Bertulazzi's arrest, "already sentenced in Italy to
27 years in prison for crimes of terrorism, after his status of
refugee was revoked by the Argentinian Refugee Commission",
according to a statement.
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