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He was the bandit who terrorized Rome in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving behind a long trail of crime and blood. Giuseppe Mastini, better known as Johnny the gypsy, due to its Sinti origins, escaped from prison again: the last time it happened was in 2017 in Fossano (Cuneo), today he again took advantage of a concession permit not to return to Bancali, the Sassari penitentiary, and now they are looking for him throughout Italy.
WHO IS JOHNNY THE GYPSY Born into a family of carousels 60 years ago, in 1975, at the age of 14, he was accused of the crime of a tram driver, Vincenzo Bigi, murdered after a robbery: Mastini was taken to the Casal del Marmo juvenile prison, from where he managed to escape. , before being arrested again. In 1987 he was released with a prison license, but did not return: in those days, according to the accusations, ‘il biondino’ (another nickname of his) entered the Buratti marriage villa in Sacrofano for the first time, killing her husband and seriously injuring his wife, then he steals a car and kidnaps a 20-year-old, Silvia Leonardi.
More escapes, chases, shootings. In one of them, agent Michele Girardi dies. On March 24, 1987, he was arrested after an impressive hunting expedition coordinated by Niccolò D’Angelo, former commissioner and former chief of the Rome Mobile Brigade. Seven hundred policemen sift through the streets of the city and the province until Mastini, now persecuted, is forced to surrender and surrender.
But the name Johnny the Gypsy also enters the trial for the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, which took place in Idroscalo di Ostia between November 1 and 2, 1975. According to a leader of the investigation, which however did not find No evidence, Mastini had met in Casal del Marmo Pino Pelosi, the only one convicted of the death of the poet, writer and director, and a shoe insole number 41 found in Pasolini’s car could have been his. Mastini has always denied any accusations: instead, he was sentenced to life in prison in 1989 for the other crimes.
THE OLD QUESTORE D’ANGELO: “A VIOLENT BAND” Niccolò D’Angelo, former commissioner and former head of Rome’s Flying Brigade, Giuseppe Mastini, known as Johnny the Gypsy, remembers him well, the prisoner for life who fled after a concession permit in Sassari. 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 he committed a murder, we kidnapped a girl (whom we released), in short, a decidedly dangerous subject also because had previously killed. one of our agents. We caught him after he fled to the field and got into a shootout. We disarm it ». For D’Angelo Jhonny the gypsy “was a serious criminal, out of place, quite impulsive, he knew he was still in jail …”.
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