must serve 27 years in prison –

The fugitive member of the Red Brigades, Leonardo Bertulazzi, has been arrested in Argentina for extradition purposes, following the revocation, by the competent Argentine authorities, of the refugee status he had obtained in 2004 from the South American state and the reiteration of the extradition request. Already arrested in 2002 by the State Police in Buenos Aires, following a complex investigation conducted by the men of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police, together with the police officers of the Digos of Genoa and Interpol, he was then released a few months later. Bertulazzi, a member of the Genoa column of the Red Brigades, must serve a total sentence of 27 years of imprisonment for kidnapping, subversive association, armed gang and other. A fugitive since 1980, he was guilty, among other crimes, of participating in the kidnapping of the naval engineer Piero Costa, which took place in Genoa on 12 January 1977.

The kidnapping was aimed at acquiring financial means to finance terrorist activity; 50 million lire were used to purchase the apartment at via Montalcini 8 in Rome, where Aldo Moro was held prisoner for the period of his kidnapping. The Argentine Police carried out the restrictive measure in the presence of the Italian Intelligence and managers and investigators of the Italian police in service at the Central Directorate of Prevention Police, the Digos of Genoa and the Service for International Police Cooperation, present in Buenos Aires for several weeks.