The sentence is valid until 2048, but Taulant Toma, a 41-year-old Albanian, has decided to "accelerate" his release. Since Sunday morning, he has been wanted everywhere in and around the Opera high-security prison in Milan.
Toma, with criminal records for robbery, theft and drug trafficking, is known as an escape expert. The alarm was raised at 08:00 in the morning, when during a routine check, guards failed to find him in his cell.
According to preliminary investigations, Taulant cut through the bars of the cell window and climbed into the inner courtyard. He then climbed over the perimeter wall and disappeared without a trace.
Investigators are analyzing security camera footage to reconstruct his movements in detail and discover where he may have gone.
This is the fourth escape in his "career", although he has been caught each time.
His last escape was in 2013, when he escaped from Parma prison with another prisoner. He was arrested in Belgium, but managed to escape again a few months later, until his capture in 2015.
The first escape dates back to October 2009 from the Terni prison, only to be captured at the end of December in a village house in the province of Pavia. /Lapsi.al
