FLORENCE, ITALY – Two of three Romanians who escaped from Florence’s Sollicciano prison on February 20 was caught in Switzerland and Turin on Wednesday April 5, 2017.
The men was identified by prosecutors at the French-Swiss border and in the Piedmont Capital thanks to an old file showing their contacts.
A national and international manhunt has been on since the three staged the daring and spectacular break-out from the Sollicciano prison in the Tuscan capital on the night of February 20.
Investigators believe the inmates, suspected members of a criminal organization specialized in theft who were arrested at the beginning of February, fled aboard a car driven by an accomplice who was waiting for them outside the prison north of Florence. 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.
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