Florian Egger, the "Rambo of Lauregno", is now a farmer in Sardinia. He was arrested in 1997 after a robbery at the Cassa di Risparmio di Bolzano in Merano, which ended in bloodshed with the murder of Carabinieri officer Candeloro Zamperini.
The Corriere del Trentino reports. Today 55 years old, Egger was 27 at the time. Zamperini, 34, crew chief of the Silandro Carabinieri Radiomobile Unit, was off duty with his son Dennis, 2 years old. He saw him running away with the stolen goods and chased him on foot. When he reached him, a fight broke out and Egger fired the two gunshots that killed him.
Egger then went on the run, lasting a month and a half, and was hunted down in the woods of the upper Val di Non. He was sentenced to 25 years, to which were added another 6 and 8 months for the two robberies he had committed during the seven months of being a fugitive from the prison in Padua, from where he had escaped in 2009 : after having obtained access to the semi-liberty regime to carry out community service, on 28 April he did not return from his reward leave. He was arrested in November of the same year along the coast of Ostia.
And it is here that his destiny intersects with Sardinia: Egger was transferred to the prison of Alghero. For at least four years he has been serving his sentence in a community of Sassari, where he works as a farmer. He will be free in a year and a half.
He has repented, say those who know him, and has expressed the desire to contact the Zamperini family when he has paid his dues to justice. What he knows for sure is that he wants to stay in Sardinia to be a farmer.
(Online Union)
