{"id":81740,"date":"2025-12-07T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=81740"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:00:43","slug":"albanian-man-surprises-italian-security-escapes-from-prison-for-the-fourth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanian-man-surprises-italian-security-escapes-from-prison-for-the-fourth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian man surprises Italian security, escapes from prison for the fourth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is sentenced until the year 2048, but Toma Taulant, a 41-year-old Albanian, has decided to \u201cspeed up\u201d his release, reports Corriere della Sera. Since Sunday morning, he has been sought everywhere in and around the high-security Opera prison in Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Toma, who has a criminal record for robbery, theft, and drug trafficking, is known as an escape expert. The alarm was raised at 08:00 in the morning, when during a routine check, guards were unable to find him in his cell.<\/p>\n<p>How did the escape happen?<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary investigations, Taulant cut the bars of his cell window and climbed into the inner courtyard. He then scaled the perimeter wall and disappeared without leaving a trace. Investigators are analyzing security camera footage to reconstruct his movements in detail and determine where he may have gone.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth escape in his \u201ccareer,\u201d although he has been caught each time.<\/p>\n<p>His last escape was in 2013, when he fled from Parma prison together with another inmate. He was arrested in Belgium but managed to escape again a few months later, until his capture in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The first escape dates back to October 2009 from Terni prison, before being caught at the end of December in a farmhouse in the province of Pavia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is sentenced until the year 2048, but Toma Taulant, a 41-year-old Albanian, has decided to \u201cspeed up\u201d his release, reports Corriere della Sera. Since Sunday morning, he has been sought everywhere in and around the high-security Opera prison in Milan. Toma, who has a criminal record for robbery, theft, and drug trafficking, is known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albanian man surprises Italian security, escapes from prison for the fourth time - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanian-man-surprises-italian-security-escapes-from-prison-for-the-fourth-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albanian man surprises Italian security, escapes from prison for the fourth time - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He is sentenced until the year 2048, but Toma Taulant, a 41-year-old Albanian, has decided to \u201cspeed up\u201d his release, reports Corriere della Sera. 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