It was just over a year ago that the Italian mafia boss escaped from a maximum security prison, reports CNN.
Marco Raduano, the 40-year-old head of the Gargano Mafia in the southern Italian region of Puglia, was caught on Thursday outside a luxury restaurant in Bastia, Corsica, where he had a romantic dinner with a female partner, the channel writes.
Raduano was serving a 24-year prison sentence for drug trafficking when he escaped. Since his escape, he has also been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for inciting a murder in a bar in Vieste, Italy, in 2017.
Tied the sheets – not chased
Raduano managed to escape the Italian prison by tying sheets from his prison window, which he then used to climb down to freedom.
The escape, which was captured on prison surveillance cameras, lasted 16 seconds and the ringleader managed to escape on foot without any guards following, prompting an internal prison investigation.
Rauduano was listed as one of Europol’s top 10 most dangerous fugitives. He was arrested by the same anti-mafia unit that captured Matteo Messina Denaro, another crime boss who spent nearly three decades on the run.