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“And the”. When Polaria’s agents, on duty at the Elmas airport, saw this man in his sixties, ready to calmly face the controls with his passport in hand, they arrested him. There is too much resemblance to lifelong prisoner Giuseppe Mastini, nicknamed Johnny Lo Zingaro, who escaped from Bancali prison last Saturday. Impossible, given the doubts, not to carry out all the controls. So during yesterday morning, for about half an hour, the rumor spread insistently: Johnny was arrested. The passport controls and the “safe” identification of the man with the tools available to the Police inevitably lasted a while.
Missed flight
In the end, it was found that the document was not a fake and that it really belonged to the departing passenger: a Sardinian cook who has lived in Britain for a long time, with a clean record. Meanwhile, his flight to London had already taken off. So Johnny’s doppelganger postponed the outing for twenty-four hours. He can arrive in England this morning. Obviously resentful but cooperative throughout the entire duration of the controls (“God forbid, you’re doing your job and it’s okay to control a suspect,” he would have told the police) at the end, when it’s all over, he would also have been ironic: “mistaken for Johnny Lo Zingaro.” However, he would not have taken it well given the inconvenience of the missed flight.
The searches
The episode that occurred yesterday morning at the Elmas airport confirms the great attention that there is in the investigation of Johnny, who has been missing for five days. The face of the perpetual prisoner is present in all border offices, ports and airports, and there are numerous police forces that persecute him. So, when yesterday it seemed to materialize at the Elmas airport, all the verification procedures began to later discover that he was a decent person, he only resembled Johnny Lo Zingaro.
Excuse me
Sentenced to life imprisonment for two murders and other acts of blood, Mastini was serving his sentence in Bancali prison in Sassari. He had gone on leave of absence, at the Don Giuseppe Muntoni family home and should have returned to the penitentiary last Saturday. But it never made it to Bancali. A bit like what happened in 2017: a previous escape from Fossano (Cuneo) prison only to be traced after a month.
The investigation
What happened is now the subject of an investigation by the inspectors of the Ministry of Justice. The modalities of the permits and the characteristics of the community where Mastini spent the award-winning outings must be verified. The decree of the Supervisory Magistrate of Sassari that authorized the permits despite the precedent three years ago will also be analyzed. An escape defined by Mastini himself, once located after a month, an escape from love. The man had spent the period with his company. For the magistrate, a “potentially alarming” behavior but “resolved in an intimate and private dimension, without illicit conduct to the detriment of third parties.” In short, a story, although reprehensible, that had no point of contact with the very serious events of 1987, followed by impeccable behavior.
Matteo vercelli
