Italy’s Prime Minister welcomed the arrest of Leonardo Bertulazzi, who lived in the city as a refugee.
The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, expressed this Thursday his “deep gratitude” to the Government Argentine, after having confirmed the detention from the former member of the Red BrigadesLeonardo Bertulazzi, at his home in the City of Buenos Aires, where he resided under his status as refugee.
The ministry of Security Argentine reported in a statement that Bertulazzi “was arrested in the City of Buenos Aires” thanks to a joint effort in which the Argentine Federal Police and the Italian Police Attaché Office. The arrest occurred “following the revocation by the competent Argentine authorities of the refugee status he obtained in 2004 from that State and the insistence on the extradition request,” the Italian police said.
After the news broke, Meloni stressed through a statement his “deep gratitude” to the Argentine government for the arrest of Bertulazzi, “already sentenced in Italy to 27 years in prison for terrorist crimes”The 76-year-old man was part of the group Red Brigades, who in 1978 kidnapped and murdered Aldo Moro, then Italian Prime Minister, a fact that shocked the entire country at the time.
A high-ranking member of Italy’s Red Brigades was captured in the city
was in Argentina “under a refugee resolution granted by the National Refugee Commission (CONARE)” and “fHe was located and arrested after the resolution was lifted by the national government authorities,” the Argentine document reports..
The septuagenarian, who was under an international arrest warrant for homicide, attack and kidnapping, belonged to the Genoese section “28 de Marzo” of the Red Brigades, who among his many activities kidnapped a ship owner.
The septuagenarian He had been sentenced in 1987 to 27 years in prison. for subversive association and membership in an armed gang. He had already been arrested in 2002 in Buenos Aires, but was released months later.
Founded in 1973 by Italian Renato Curcio and based on Marxist-Leninist ideology, the Red Brigades (BR) wounded or killed dozens of judges, politicians, journalists and industrialists in the 1970s.
Source: Ambito
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