FLORENCE, ITALY – Police across Italy on Tuesday February 21, 2017 were looking for three Romanian inmates who escaped from Florence’s Sollicciano prison the previous night. Security has been tightened at bus and train stations across Tuscany.
According to preliminary investigations, the three men escaped by digging a hole in a wall in their cell. They then climbed down into a court and over the prison’s protective wall.
Investigators believe the inmates, suspected members of a criminal organization specialized in theft who were arrested at the beginning of the month, ran away aboard a car driven by an accomplice who was waiting for them outside the prison north of Florence.