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Elia Del Grande Writes From Hiding After Fleeing 'Casa Lavoro' Facility

The 49-year-old convicted of a 1998 familicide says the security placement derailed his reintegration, mirroring shuttered psychiatric prisons.

Overview

  • He remains at an undisclosed location while authorities search for him after he left a Modena-area casa lavoro in late October.
  • In an email to local outlet Varese News, he argues the institutions function like the old OPGs, citing prison-like rules, heavy psychopharmacological use and limited real work opportunities.
  • He contends a surveillance magistrate’s decision to place him in the facility cost him a job and stability he had rebuilt during supervised liberty.
  • He insists he “moved away” rather than escaped, emphasizing his status as an interned person under a security measure rather than a detainee.
  • Reports describe a dramatic departure using tied electrical wires to descend a perimeter wall about six meters high, following a sentence history of 26 years and 4 months served out of a 30-year term reduced for diminished responsibility.