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74-Year-Old Ex-Marxist Militant Scales Balcony to Flee House Arrest in Argentina #shorts

On November 10, 74-year-old Leonardo Bertulazzi—a former senior leader of Italy’s radical Marxist Red Brigades who was awaiting extradition to serve a 27-year prison sentence for terrorism-related crimes—escaped house arrest in Buenos Aires by tricking his electronic ankle monitor with a tube of pork and rappelling from a fifth-floor balcony. Having previously lived in Argentina

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