Overview
- Del Grande emailed Varese News from an undisclosed location, saying he left the Castelfranco Emilia site because it was unfit for reintegration.
- He alleges the institution operates like a prison with bars, gates, regimented schedules, police presence and widespread use of psychotropic drugs.
- After serving 26 years and 4 months and moving to supervised liberty in July 2023, he was reassigned by the Magistratura di Sorveglianza to a casa lavoro as still socially dangerous.
- He contends this was not an escape because he was an internato rather than a detainee, asserting he simply distanced himself from the structure.
- Reports describe a climb over a six-metre perimeter wall using tied electric wires, and authorities have not announced his capture.