Mafia Boss in Bedsheet Prison Break Is Recaptured During Lunch Date

Marco Raduano’s lunch date was going great until the carabinieri showed up.

The Italian mob boss-turned-prison breaker was caught Thursday by police on the Mediterranean island of Corsica while he was having lunch with a woman. Raduano, one of Europol’s most dangerous criminals, leads the Gargano Mafia, which operates in the southern Italian region of Puglia.

The mobster first made headlines in February 2023, when he was captured on camera using bedsheets tied at the ends to escape a high-security prison on the neighboring island of Sardinia. In video footage, the reverse-Rapunzel maneuver can be seen ending in an ungraceful plop onto the grass, from which Raduano takes off running.

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