Police are searching on Monday
for two inmates who staged an old-fashioned jailbreak from
Rome's Rebibbia prison on Sunday.
The prisoners sawed the window bars of the warehouse where
they were permitted to work and then descended the outer wall of
the jail by using tied-together sheets, ANSA sources said.
The escapees are Romanian former cellmates Catalin Ciobanu,
33, convicted of murder; and Mihai Florin Diaconescu, 28,
convicted of burglary.
Prison guards' union Sappe said at the time of the escape
from the new annex of the prison at around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday,
there were only two guards on duty for 150 inmates and the alarm
system wasn't working.
The inmates climbed over the external wall of the prison
and escaped on foot on the adjacent main thoroughfare, Via
Tiburtina, ANSA sources said.
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