Massimo Riella, the 49-year-old accused of robbery and aggravated theft, was tracked down and extradited to Italy. He escaped on March 12 after obtaining a permit from the Como prison to visit his mother's grave.

Riella had managed to escape the agents of the escort, attacking them. For months he had then taken refuge in the woods around Lake Como, areas he knew well, probably helped by some friends, but searches had led to nothing. Then the escape abroad, in Montenegro where he was identified by the investigators of the Scip, the Service for International Police Cooperation (Scip), an operational branch of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police.

He was hiding in an apartment on the outskirts of Podgorica , the Montenegrin capital, where he was arrested in July and taken to prison, awaiting extradition. A few days ago he was handed over to the Albanian authorities and in these hours he was taken from Tirana on a flight to Italy, where the prison doors will open for him again.

(Unioneonline/lf)

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