A suspected "radicalised" Moroccan
Islamist suspected of terrorism who escaped from Avellino jail
south of Naples on January 11 was caught at Metz in northeast
France Sunday, but a second jail breaker, a 21-year-old
Romanian, is still on the run, sources said on Monday.
Hassin Kalifi, 40, was serving a prison term for drug
trafficking and had been converted to radical Islam in jail,
sources said.
He was arrested on a European warrant issued by Trento police
alerted by Naples anti-mafia prosecutors for drug trafficking.
Kalifi was apprehended by French police.
The young Romanian, Florin Mocian, broke out of jail with Kalifi
and another man who was injured in the jail break and soon
captured.
The trio carved a hole in their cell wall which police found
when they inspected the room, where a fourth man had stayed
behind.
Police said the Romanian was not a convert to radical jihadi
terror, unlike Kalifi.
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