Pork fat, a heating pad and a five-storey jump: how a 74-year-old escaped house arrest in Argentina

Leonardo Bertulazzi, ex-member of Italy’s radical far-left Red Brigades, fled in dramatic fashion, ‘like something out of a movie’ As dozens of police and sniffer dogs poured into San Telmo, a traditional Buenos Aires neighbourhood with cobblestone streets, on Tuesday morning, one of the clerks at a shop selling dulce de leche asked them why. He said they were “looking for a bomb”. It was only later that she found out there was no danger of being blown up after all, and that authorities were, in fact, hunting for a fugitive. “An Italian mafioso, right?” she asked. Continue reading...