Raduano helped in the escape? Possible contacts between the Gargano mafia and Sardinian criminality are being examined

The Dda of Bari is also working to find the Gargano boss Marco Raduano, who escaped from Nuoro prison on Friday afternoon .

The Foggia carabinieri who are in charge of the investigations are in contact with their Sardinian colleagues and soon there will also be contacts between the heads of the prosecutors.

The hypothesis of aiding and abetting aimed at evasion is also being investigated, with contacts between the mafia clan headed by Raduano and Sardinian criminals . Contacts that could have originated in the Badu 'e Carros penitentiary, where an alliance between the two consortia could have been forged.

"A STRANGE ESCAPE"

In fact, the investigators are very perplexed by the fact that such a high-profile criminal managed to escape during the hour of air with the most classic of methods, probably sheets left unattended.

The prisoner also obtained the key to exit the High Security unit and reach the boundary wall (as reported in Mauro Pili's report on L'Unione Sarda) , from which he then descended to escape undisturbed two hours before the surveillance noticed his escape.

The escape of Raduano, who was in charge of the library inside the department and could move freely, is told by the frames of the internal cameras: the boss knew where the keys to the armored door were kept. He went downstairs, tried to open it to go outside but the key didn't work, so he went back up and got another key, the right one. Then he went out towards the boundary wall and lowered himself with the sheets from the highest point, about 5 meters . The rest is in the now viral video that is circulating.

A decidedly “strange” escape. Even more so in a prison where prisoners of the caliber of Graziano Mesina, Renato Vallanzasca, Luciano Liggio and Francis Turatello have passed, none of them had ever managed to escape .

Two investigations have been opened into the escape: one by the Nuoro prosecutor's office, the other internally by the Ministry of Justice.

Meanwhile, while the forces of order beat Barbagia inch by inch, the hypothesis – very probable – is gaining ground that the criminal has already left the island. In fact, the maximum alert signal would have arrived in Sardinian ports and airports only yesterday morning . So Raduano would have had plenty of time to embark and lose track of him.

«NO ONE COULD LOOK AT THE MONITORS»

In the meantime, the controversy over the shortage of staff in the correctional facility continues.

At the time of the escape, explains the secretary of the Uilpa Penitentiary Police Gennarino De Fazio, the prison operations room was not manned. «Video surveillance is not enough if it is not supported by artificial intelligence and, above all, if no one can look after the monitors or has to control dozens of them while dealing with countless other tasks» .

«Video surveillance – he continues – cannot only be a passive security tool suitable for verifying events after they have occurred, but must constitute an aid for active safety and prevention. We need to strengthen our workforce and we need artificial intelligence software capable of alerting operators. At the time of the escape, the operations room was not manned due to lack of personnel ».

Giovanni Conteddu of Osapp Nuoro meanwhile gives some numbers on the lack of staff: «Nuoro lacks about 50 prison officers, there are about 145 in service, of which 17 are women without having had a female arm for years . At Christmas the head of the Dap came and promised us that 8 colleagues would arrive, 2 arrived and they were seconded to Mamone (Lodè-Nuoro, ed) and Sassari. In the High Security there is only one colleague who maybe will pay for the negligence of the prison administration which has never increased the workforce despite requests and this is not fair. The colleague on duty that day has already been heard as well as everyone else on duty that day. Certainly Raduano had plenty of time to organize his escape: he hid the sheets that served as a ladder for him, studied the internal timetables of the department and must have built an external bridge that covered his escape ».

(Unioneonline/L)