For days now, widespread searches by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate have been multiplying in Santa Teresa and other coastal towns in Gallura. Police investigators are hunting for the network of accomplices who, immediately after the daring escape from the Badu 'e Carros prison in Nuoro, allowed the Gargano boss, Marco Raduano , to cross the sea and reach Corsica, where he was captured two weeks ago by the Ros carabinieri.

The 41-year-old, who remained on the run for almost a year, was extradited in recent days and locked up in the L'Aquila prison , under the 41bis regime. The boss is in the same prison as Matteo Messina Denaro, considered one of the most inviolable high security institutions in Italy. He escaped from the Nuoro prison on 24 February 2023, lowering himself with a woven sheet and then vanishing into thin air until he was tracked down in the town of Aleria, in Corsica, where he probably spent most of his time in hiding, after a period initial spent in Sardinia. Immediately, however, the police investigators (Sisco, the investigative section of the central operational service, and the Flying Squad of Nuoro work there) and those of the central investigative unit of the penitentiary police, began to investigate the spectacular escape from Badu' and Carros and on the accomplices who helped the boss .

The investigation by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate has already established that in prison Raduano was helped by another inmate who had access to the penitentiary workshop , a place equipped with metalworking tools. The alleged accomplice would have measured the width of the surrounding wall, building both the hooks and the ladder used to climb from the internal part. To lower oneself from the outside, a rope made by weaving a sheet would then have been used. There would have been a car waiting for him outside , perhaps a sedan, which would have allowed him to leave the capital and take refuge in one of the inland towns. The DDA is also apparently working on the alleged connivance of some prison guards , while an administrative investigation by the Dap has shed light on a series of errors and alleged negligence.

Last January 31, when he was captured, the Gargano boss was in the company of a woman: he was handcuffed in a restaurant, while they were preparing to have dinner. Working on the escape, the Anti-Mafia investigators understood that the escape was the result of a plan organized down to the smallest detail, with initial complicity and people who favored the initial inaction which is believed to have ended, in all probability, before the Sardinian hinterland, then on the Gallura coasts, in a center overlooking Corsica . On the other hand, the links between the two islands in terms of fugitives are now known to the DDA: before Raduano, Matteo Boe had also been captured there, but it had emerged that Quirico Carta, from Buddusò, had also managed to take refuge in Corsican land, making a new life above all suspicion.

For days, therefore, searches have been carried out in both the provinces of Nuoro and Gallura, where useful elements for identifying the abettors have already been acquired . The two magistrates of the Cagliari DDA in charge of the investigation maintain the utmost confidentiality on this point but imminent developments cannot be ruled out, also regarding subjects who frequently go to Corsica for work and could have facilitated the fugitive's transfer to the island French. A network of professionals that would have been active for years now and that would have guaranteed the escape of several wanted people, but which - as has already emerged in some investigations in the past - could also have been exploited to bring weapons and ammunition to Sardinia, then used to commit serious crimes on the island.

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