– What?It is 74-year-old Italian, convicted of involvement in a kidnapping committed by an extreme leftist organisation in the 1970s, has escaped from house arrest in Argentina and is currently on the run, broadcast I did. tv.

Leonardo Bertulaz used a safety device and a rope to get off the balcony of an apartment on the fifth floor in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.

By BBCHis flight was not immediately confirmed after he had intervened in the operation of the electronic tracking bracelet, causing the device to continue to broadcast body temperature data even after he had opened and left.

Bertulazzi had already spent decades on the run, having been condemned in absentia by Italian kidnapping justice in 1977 by Italian Navy engineer Pieter Costa.

At the moment of his escape, he was awaiting extradition to Italy and kept under the supervision of the Argentinian Security Ministry through an electronic device placed on his ankle that recorded body temperature and movement.