An Italian mafia employer who got away from an optimal security jail in 2015 by utilizing bed sheets to scale the walls has actually been recorded in France, authorities state.
Marco Raduano, the 40-year-old manager of the Gargano Mafia in the southern Italian area of Puglia, was captured Thursday outside a high-end dining establishment in Bastia, Corsica, where he was dining with a female buddy.
He was nabbed by the very same anti-mafia system that caught Matteo Messina Denaro, another criminal manager who invested almost 3 years on the run.
Rauduona was noted as one of Europol’s leading 10 most hazardous fugitives.
Nabbed was his right-hand male, Gianluigi Troiano, who got away home arrest in 2021 after separating his electronic bracelet. He was jailed on Thursday in Granada, Spain while getting a parcel from a service point.
The joint operation was bought by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Bari, Puglia and performed by the Carabinieri of the ROS and the provincial command of Foggia, Puglia. The Spanish Guardia Civil and the French Gendarmerie Nationale likewise worked together in the arrest, according to the Carabinieri declaration.
Raduano’s escape by connecting bed sheets from his jail window simply under a year earlier was captured on the penitentiary’s monitoring electronic cameras. The escape lasted 16 seconds and he got away on foot without any guards discovering or providing chase, which caused an internal examination of the optimal security jail.
Raduano was serving a 24-year sentence in jail for drug trafficking when he left, and sentenced to life in jail in absentia after his escape for prompting the murder of mobster Omar Trott in a bruschetta bar in Vieste, Italy, in 2017.