Still no trace of Marco Raduano , the Apulian boss of the Sacra Corona Unita who escaped yesterday from the maximum security prison of Badu 'e Carros in Nuoro .
In fifty years no one had ever managed to escape from what until recently was considered the safest prison in Italy , where terrorists and mafia are serving and have served their sentences. Even criminals of the caliber of Renato Vallanzasca, Graziano Mesina and Raffaele Cutolo.
Forty years old, from San Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia), Raduano escaped like in the movies : by descending from a rope made up of at least five knotted sheets. Twenty days ago the order for the execution of the 19-year sentence was triggered, after the Cassation had rejected his appeal on 1 February.
In Sardinia it is a manhunt, with checkpoints and controls in all ports and airports.
"As soon as the Prison Police alerted us of the escape, around 7 pm, we launched the anti-crime plan in the province of Nuoro, notified all the Police Headquarters of Sardinia and the Border Police in the ports and airports of the Island - confirms the commissioner of the Barbagia capital Alfonso Polverino - There is an enormous deployment of police forces and men throughout the region, while the Nuoro prison police work on the internal front through the analysis of video cameras from the prison and testimonies ».
WHO IS – Raduano, also known as “Pallone” or “Woolrich”, is considered a top member of the homonymous clan that operates in Vieste. The "boss of the Gargano" boasts a long criminal career and has sentences that he must finish serving in 2046 for drug trafficking with mafia aggravating circumstances, murder, crimes against the person, against property and in the field of weapons and drugs. He was in a high security regime 3. On February 3, he had been notified of a sentence that became definitive to 19 years' imprisonment, plus three years of probation, because the appeal to the Cassation had been declared inadmissible.
The penalty is linked to the maxi anti-mafia operation "Neve di Marzo" , coordinated by the DDA of Bari and carried out by the military of Vieste in October 2019 when a criminal association aimed at drug trafficking was defeated, aggravated by the mafia method, which also used weapons from war.
THE REACTIONS – The unions have raised yet another alarm over the poor security conditions in which prison officers work . «This escape in the disastrous prison system is the umpteenth confirmation of the inadequacy, even of the special circuit defined as high security - denounces Gennarino De Fazio, general secretary of the Uilpa Penitentiary Police -. We have 18,000 prison police personnel lacking, inadequate equipment, non-existent or non-functioning technological and electronic systems. This while since the government took office we have been waiting to be summoned by the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, or at least by the undersecretary Andrea Delmastro delle Vedove, who seems to prefer trips to the territories and "private" meetings to the official ones of the unions". .
"We have no sure news of how the escape could have taken place - says Giovanni Villa, regional secretary of the FNS Cisl - we trust in the forces of order so that the escaped person will be captured as soon as possible". For the secretary general of Sappe, Donato Capece , "what happened is of unprecedented gravity and is the consequence of the wicked dismantling of prison security policies". "It's time to declare a state of emergency for prisons - urges the president of the union of penitentiary police unions, Giuseppe Moretti - That the Italian penitentiary system is a bandwagon in disarray is a certain fact and someone needs to take note of it".
(Unioneonline/D)
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