Johnny the Gypsy escapes again

Johnny the gypsy as a young man (still)

Published on: 06/09/2020 8:47 PM

I was on premium license and had to go back to jail in the day, but by Giuseppe Mastini, known as ‘Johnny the gypsy’, have been lost since noon: the man, who is serving a life sentence, escaped today from Bancali. The searches are underway by the provincial command of the carabinieri, coordinated by the Sassari prosecutor. This is the second escape, after the one that took place on June 30, 2017 in the Fasano prison, in the province of Cuneo.

Who is Johnny the Gypsy, one escape after another?

THE CRIMINAL PROFILE – Niccolò D’Angelo, you remember well, former commissioner and former head of the Rome Mobile Squad. It was D’Angelo personally who put the handcuffs on his wrists: “I stopped him, I remember that day well. He was a serious criminal, he belonged to a nomadic family of carousels, we arrested him with my Sixth Section in Fiano Romano, after having committed a murder, we kidnapped a girl (whom we released), in short a very dangerous topic also because previously had killed one of our agents. We caught him after he fled to the field and got into a shootout. We take it apart ”. For D’Angelo, Johnny the Gypsy “was a serious criminal, out of place, quite impulsive, he knew he was still in jail …”.

PREVIOUS – Giuseppe Mastini, aka Johnny the Gypsy, is a repeat offender in terms of leaks. In June 2017, he took advantage of outside work to avoid returning to the Cairo Montenotte prison police school in the Savona area, where he had been assigned by the surveillance court. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Mastini served his sentence in the Fossano penitentiary since 1989 and it is from here that he traveled for three years to reach Cairo Montenotte, where he carried out some maintenance work.

THE PRIZE PERMIT – Giuseppe Mastini’s escape from Sassari prison is the demonstration that the regulations on permits must be changed. He is convinced of that Vincenzo Chianese, general secretary of the security-police balance union. “Author of numerous armed robberies – Chianese says in a note – convicted of two murders, including that of agent Michele Giraldi, today Giuseppe Mastini, known as ‘Johnny lo Zingaro’ for being blond and of Sinti ethnicity, once again did not return from a concession permit. However, this life sentence during the granting of a permit in 2014 had already been held responsible for the irregularities and in 2017 he had done the exact same thing, becoming a fugitive after another grant of leave for not showing up at Fossano prison, only to be captured almost a month later. “.”Legislation allowing people who clearly shouldn’t be able to get out of prison It must be changed absolutely and not only to prevent the victims’ families from feeling the same pain every time certain things happen, but also because the feeling of impunity that exists in our country deeply undermines the credibility of the State, ”Chianese concludes. .

SAPPE – Cases such as the escape of Giuseppe Mastini from the Sassari prison, known as ‘Johnny the Gypsy’, are among the “consequences one faces the dismantling of prison security policies and of prison police personnel shortage, which has 7,000 fewer agents. What happens every day in the country’s prisons worries us ”. Donato Capece, general secretary of the Autonomous Union of Penitentiary Police of Sappe, said in a note: “The question arises: but the concession permits are granted after an adequate prior evaluation of the issue Who is in charge of this task? The dangerousness of the subject is really evaluated, Belonging, the contacts it has with criminal environments? “Capece continues.” It is necessary to take a decisive turn in the granting of bonus permits to certain prisoners – she adds -; Hardening is necessary, in terms of rigidity, especially towards those individuals who have committed crimes of grave social danger. In our opinion, an urgent technical table of all the actors involved, the judiciary, the prison authorities, the prison police is needed to implement, with the competence and contribution of all, a common strategy, capable of responding more incisively to the needs . security of the structures and also of the territory, since some inmates who do not return from leave, certainly return to their territory to commit a crime. And this, for a civil society, is not admissible, tolerable. ”“ Our complaints remain unanswered and without adequate measures. Prison police officers must go to work with the assurance that they will not be insulted, offended or, worse still, attacked by a part of the detained population that has no restraint to disrupt security and internal order in any way. Let us not forget that every day we have serious critical events in Italian prisons, episodes that are incomprehensibly underestimated by the prison administration. And it would really be worth thinking about entrusting the prison police with the control of detainees admitted to alternative measures, an external criminal area, granting permits ”.

MESINA LATITANT IN SARDINIA FOR TWO MONTHS – Johnny the Gypsy, born Giuseppe Mastini, is not the only one wanted for life by the police in Sardinia. For more than two months, in fact, they have continued uninterrupted the investigation of Graziano Messina, the ancient red primrose of banditry in Sardinia. The 78-year-old orgola lost his trail on the night of July 2, as soon as he received the news of the confirmation in the Supreme Court of the 30-year sentence for international drug trafficking. Orgosolo, the town of Nuoro where Messina lived until the day of her escape and where her family still resides today, was besieged for weeks by the police and the media. All the tracks have been beaten, even those given to her by an expat in Corsica or Tunisia. But so far there is no trace of Grazianeddu. And now for the Police Forces there are two ‘illustrious’ people who wanted to beat Sardinia inch by inch.