He was tracked down by the Carabinieri around 2.30 this night, at the train station Garbagnate Milaneseone of the two minor prisoners escaped yesterday afternoon from the penal institute for minors Cesare Beccaria from Milan. This was announced by Gennarino De Fazio, secretary of Uilpa, the prison police union. “The search for the other fugitive is still underway, but we are optimistic. However, we cannot express as much optimism about the fate of prisons, for minors and adults, who continue to be abandoned to their own devices. The silence of the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, is singular, even after similar episodes” De Fazio finally notes.
The Beccaria prison in Milan
The capture
Shortly afterwards the police rebuilt the capture phases: it was the soldiers of the Cesate, Lainate stations and of the Radiomobile Section of the Rho Company who arrested the 16-year-old Italian for the crime of resisting a Public Official and reported him on the loose for the crime of escape. The boy was on board a train headed to Milan Cadorna. When he was spotted, he resisted and went into a rage. Subsequently, the prison police accompanied him to the San Carlo hospital in Milan, since the minor had shown chest pain, and finally took him back to Beccaria.
The escape
The two, as explained yesterday by staff of the Milanese juvenile prison, at the center of much controversy, they would have taken advantage of the poor surveillance in the afternoon to climb over a couple of fences in the walking area, the one dedicated to moments in the open air, on the Cpa side (the first reception centre) of the Juvenile. First they climbed up using a pole as support, and then they climbed over a main driveway gate. On their trail, in addition to the investigative section of the penitentiary police, the Carabinieri and the police. The two had been seen taking the subway to the Bisceglie line 1 station, which is located a few hundred meters from the prison, then nothing more. Until the capture of a fugitive at the Garbagnate Trenord station, in the Milanese hinterland.
Who I am
Both 16 years old, one Italian and the other Moroccan. The first, born in the province of How he entered the juvenile institution last June 11th to serve a final sentence of just under a year for robbery and at the same time for a precautionary custody order in prison for the same crime. Also for robbery, the other fugitive, born in Morocco and one year older but still to turn 17.
