Don Gino Rigoldi , historic chaplain of the Beccaria juvenile institute in Milan is convinced of this: " They'll call me, I'll bring them back ".

For now, however, no return to prison from where seven boys escaped on December 25 , perhaps taking advantage of the holidays and the work in progress in the structure . Three of them are back in the cell while the searches of the other four continue. After the escape, other inmates started a fire , which was put out in the following hours and which took four officers to the hospital, poisoned by the smoke.

There are two escape routes: the group escaped by climbing onto some scaffolding while a prisoner lowered himself outside the structure using a sheet .

Don Gino Rigoldi, who still remembers the riots of the 80s in which he had laboriously tried to mediate between young prisoners and the forces of order ready for the blitz, avoiding the worst, hopes that the Christmas day escape is a wake -up call alarm for a prison in which "a director has been missing for 20 years and there have been jobs for 16".

A situation that mayor Giuseppe Sala doesn't like: «There's just no more room for gossip or generic statements of bewilderment. The Beccaria was a model prison . It was in the past , in a now distant past. There hasn't been a director for almost 20 years and there has been work in progress for about fifteen years , which never ends».

While waiting for other escapees to be traced or to show up at the door of the Institute, the investigations are taking their first steps : from that of the Juvenile Prosecutor 's Office to that of the ordinary Prosecutor 's Office to that, finally, within the Prison Administration . Finally, there remains the file concerning the unrest that broke out in the prison after the news of the successful escape, with damage and fires in the bedrooms.

(Unioneonline/vf)

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