Overview
- Authorities say Del Grande has been missing since the evening of October 30 after climbing over the facility’s outer wall in Castelfranco Emilia.
- Carabinieri and penitentiary police are searching across Italy, with checks focused on the Varesotto area around Cadrezzate and on Sardinia.
- Union officials from Sappe report he lowered himself using a makeshift rope fashioned from joined electric wires, a detail not confirmed by investigators.
- After serving about 25 years of a 30‑year term for the 1998 Cadrezzate family killings, he was assigned six months at the casa‑lavoro starting in September under court supervision tied to recent theft and harassment reports.
- Sappe criticizes the facility’s security, citing the mixing of 45 internees with 40 inmates and staffing of 62 officers versus more than 100 deemed necessary.