- Title: URUGUAY: BANKER AND EDITOR GAETANO PELLEGRINI GIAMPIETRO RELEASED BY KIDNAPPERS.
- Date: 23rd November 1969
- Summary: 1. MV POLICE CARS ARRIVING 0.03 2. CU SIGN ON POLICE CAR 0.10 3. SV DR. PELLEGRINI AT PRESS CONFERENCE 0.13 4. SV DITTO 0.24 5. SV DITTO BEING INTERVIEWED 0.37 Initials EH/VS/DW/MH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 8th December 1969 13:00
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- Location: MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
- Country: Uruguay
- Reuters ID: LVAD0TJ6SIQYPU4N4QB0HNSZU14J
- Story Text: URUGUAYAN BANKER AND MANAGING EDITOR OF THE NEWSPAPERS "LA MANANA" AND "EL DIARIO", GAETANO PELLEGRINI GIAMPIETRO WHO WAS KIDNAPPED 72 DAYS AGO BY A LEFT-WING TERRORIST ORGANISATION, WAS FREED EARLY LAST FRIDAY (21 NOVEMBER) AFTER CLOSE FRIENDS DONATED 15 MILLION PESOS (ABOUT 25,000 POUND STERLING) TO A HOSPITAL.
PELLEGRINI, 42, W S UNHURT BUT APPARENTLY EXHAUSTED WHEN HE SPOKE TO INTERVIEWERS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE OUTSIDE A MONTEVIDEO POLICE STATION.
PELLEGRINI WAS ABANDONED ON A QUAY AT BUCEO YACHTING PORT JUST OUTSIDE CENTRAL MONTEVIDEO. HIS CAPTORS, MEMBERS OF THE TUPAMAROS ORGANISATION, - FIRST URBAN GUERRILLA GROUP TO SPRING UP IN SOUTH AMERICA - FREED HIM AFTER 'PHONING HIS CLOSE FRIEND, DR. EUGENIO BAROFIO, WHO PICKED HIM UP IN HIS CAR AND TOOK HIM HOME TO BE REUNITED WITH HIS WIFE.
ITALIAN-BORN PELLEGRINI, WHOSE FATHER WAS MUSSOLINI'S FINANCE MINISTER WAS KIDNAPPED BY TWO GUNMEN ON THE 9 SEPTEMBER AS HE SAT IN A CAR OUTSIDE HIS NEWSPAPER OFFICE.
THE INCIDENT WAS CONNECTED WITH A BANK CLERK'S STRIKE. PELLEGRINI, WHO IS ALSO A LAWYER AND A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE URUGUAYAN BANK ASSOCIATION, HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN ABORTIVE NEGOTIATIONS AIMED AT SETTLING THE STRIKE.
TWO WEEKS AFTER THE KIDNAPPING THE TUPAMAROS WARNED THE POLICE TO ABANDON THE SEARCH IF THEY DID NOT WANT TO ENDANGER THE KIDNAPPED MAN'S LIFE.
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