Mafia boss who escaped prison using bed sheets captured after year-long manhunt

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Mafia boss who escaped prison using bed sheets captured after year-long manhunt

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Italian mafioso Marco Raduano, left, has been arrested one yr after escaping from jail, as has his right-hand man Gianluigi Troiano, right (Picture: AFP)

A 'dangerous' mafia boss who managed to escape from a high-security jail in Italy utilizing tied together bed sheets has been recaptured by police in France.

Marco Raduano, who's on Europol's record of most needed criminals, was caught in Bastia on the French island of Corsica at this time, authorities say.

The 40-year-old mobster is a number one figure in a infamous Apulia-based Sacra Corona Unita mafia, lately renamed the Società Foggiana.

He had pulled off an audacious escape in February last year when he managed to interrupt free from the Badu'e Carros jail in Nuoro, Sardinia.

CCTV footage of Raduano's dramatic escape confirmed the mafioso utilizing a rope of knotted mattress linen to scale down the partitions before jumping a number of metres onto grassland under. 

Raduano, who's from the city of Vieste in Italy, then sprinted down the street and evaded seize for 12 months – until now. 

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Marco Raduano was recaptured in Bastia, Corsica, in France (Image: AFP)

His right-hand man, Italian Gianluigi Troiano, was additionally detained in Otura close to Granada in Spain, in line with  the Italian inside minister Matteo Piantedosi, who described it as 'another vital blow to organised crime'.

On the time of his escape a yr ago, Raduano had been in prison for 5 years after being arrested as part of a large-scale drug and arms trafficking sting.

The top of the Gargano clan, which operates inside the 'fifth mafia' in Foggia in the Puglia region of southern Italy, was serving a 24-year sentence.

Europol stated Raduano was the top figure in the group and was a ruthless killer concerned in drug trafficking and extortion.

Raduano's accomplic Gianluigi Troiano pictured being arrested in Otura, close to Granada in Spain at this time (Image: AFP)

In recent times, investigators have made inroads into exposing the felony organisation.

It comes as part of concerted efforts towards different mafia teams including the Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Naples.

The Società Foggiana had beforehand been operating largely underneath the radar.

Raduano escaped from jail in 2023 through the use of mattress sheets tied together to clamber down the wall of a high security prison in Nuoro, Sardinia

Raduano was serving 24 years behind bars for a number of felony offences (Image: Italy 24 News)

In response to prosecutors,the group is characterised by a excessive diploma of aggression and violence.

Authorities stated: 'It's one that feeds cadavers to pigs in order to not depart a hint. An unrefined mafia in its actions and, because of this, harmful.'

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