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Investigators do not rule out the possibility that the 41-year-old had external support. It is suspected that at least one person provided him with logistical support, including a car, clean clothes, forged documents...
Taulant Toma, who a few days ago escaped from a high-security prison in Milan, where he was supposed to serve his sentence until 2041, has been declared wanted across Europe. His name is on the most wanted list, while authorities in Italy have not found any trace of the 41-year-old Albanian.
Italian media have meanwhile revealed other details of the plan that gave the 41-year-old his freedom. Before undertaking the escape, he had started a diet, with the aim of losing weight, not only to enable him to pass through the bars, but also to make the escape through sheets that he had improvised on a rope.
Toma was serving a long prison sentence, and it remains a mystery how he managed to evade the Americans' controls, cameras, and systems.
Tools to cut bars, mounted broomsticks, sheets tied together like a rope. That's all it took for the 41-year-old to break through security in one of the highest-security prisons. With patience, he cut through the bars of the window, from where he used the sheets to climb down.
He took advantage of the darkness, but also the moment when prison police officers were changing shifts.
The next step he is thought to have taken and enabled his escape beyond the siege was the use of broomsticks.
Attached with adhesive tape, they transform into a kind of telescopic stick with a hook at the end, which is used to hang it on the perimeter wall with a harpoon and climb onto it.
Photos in the possession of investigators show that everything was clearly organized, with bars cut from the window. According to what has been discovered, his cellmate was also supposed to escape with him, but at the last minute he abandoned the plan, remaining inside the prison.
Despite increased security and the prisoner's designation as a high-risk escapee, Toma managed to escape without immediately raising the alarm. The escape apparently took advantage of a combination of favorable factors: early morning darkness, staff shift changes, and potential "blind spots" in the perimeter control system.
Investigators do not rule out the possibility that the 41-year-old had external support. It is suspected that at least one person provided him with logistical support, including a car, clean clothes, and forged documents.
After breaking through the perimeter, it is suspected that Toma quickly headed towards the inner areas of Milan, aiming to leave the prison area as quickly as possible.
Currently, the Prefecture has activated a broad search plan: checkpoints, increased security at train stations, airports and motorway toll booths, as well as patrols throughout the area. Law enforcement is checking security cameras and public and private video surveillance systems to reconstruct the fugitive's movements in the "dark window" after his escape.
The escape from the Opera is just the latest in a long series of escapes that have built Taulant Toma's reputation as an "escape specialist".
In 2009, Toma escaped from Terni prison for the first time. He was later found, arrested, and returned to his cell.
On February 2, 2013, he escaped from Parma prison together with a compatriot, Valentin Frrokaj. The latter was later killed by a jeweler during a robbery, an episode that marked one of the most dramatic chapters in their criminal careers.
After forty days of searches in Italy and abroad, the Parma Prosecutor's Office was informed that Toma had been arrested in Belgium, where he awaits extradition.
But Toma managed to disappear again, only to be recaptured in 2015.
A record that places him among the most problematic prisoners in the European prison system, to the extent that his level is raised every time he is transferred from one institution to another.
Today, the 41-year-old is wanted throughout Italy, with a very high level of alert. Investigators fear that he could quickly leave the country, taking advantage of old criminal contacts abroad and a support network that he has already used in previous escapes. The real risk is that Toma will rejoin organized groups engaged in robbery, drug trafficking or attacks on sensitive targets.
Law enforcement is cooperating with Europol and authorities in several EU countries, also given his past in Belgium. The aim is to prevent his escape from the Opera from turning into another long-term fugitive and, above all, to prevent the "prison escape wizard" from reorganizing within transnational criminal networks. /Pamphlet/
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