The last escape of the son of the Italian deputy: the king of butrón fell when he was going to flee through the Fiumicino airport

Di Francesco, a textbook narcissist, was pretty messed up. So much so, that when they finally caught him on Friday, October 11, the liaisons from the transalpine country with the agents of Group II of the Fugitive Location Section of our police transmitted: «It doesn’t look like him, his appearance has changed a lot. aspect”. Except for the collection of tattoos that mar his body, once athletically built and from which a smile rarely comes out. Among other traits of his terrible character, this criminal stands out for his bad character and his twisted fang.

The search for this butronero, cradled in a family from Chamartín (he is the son of a former Italian deputy, Stefano di Francesco, and a Madrid lawyer) but up to his neck in judicial proceedings for his mafia past and present, came to an end. at half past six in the afternoon. The setting was none other than Fiumicino, the municipality next to Rome where the Leonardo da Vinci airport is located. He had just left a bar, he was alone at the wheel of his good car and, due to the area in which he was located, they suspect that he intended to quickly flee the country. Of course, he was undocumented. Until his arrest in Germany, he lived in an apartment in San Sebastián de los Reyes next to the Alegra shopping center, which he rented to a third party.

The European arrest warrant was obtained on Monday, thanks to the management of Fugitivos. In August, they had already managed to hunt down one of their cronies, Carlos La Mola Navarro, a 36-year-old from Madrid who had also been raiding jewelry stores, restaurants, agencies, real estate agencies and others for more than a decade throughout Spanish territory. He was also hiding in Italy. Di Francesco had ten requests from different courts, such as Murcia, Malaga and Madrid, both for appearance and for search, capture and imprisonment. For now, he has a firm sentence of six years in prison for robberies with force that he will now serve, sources in the case say.

Two homes in Rome

Since he was released from Germany, the Italian, which is how he is known in the world, had police inquiries replicated in his other country (he has dual nationality). In Fugitivos they began to control his family environment, his money movements and all the homes where he could hide. This is how two homes in Rome were identified, where they were subjecting him to discreet surveillance. Until they hooked him up at the last minute. Now, he is awaiting certain extradition from a prison in Rome, where he is now staying, to Spain, a country in which he will have to give an account behind bars.

Before Di Francesco and La Mola, the third leader of this crime syndicate was arrested in Melun (France), a year ago, as this newspaper reported at the time. This is Omar Nasr Guerrero, with whom, in his last round of robberies in Spain, he made off with at least one million euros in different loot. Omar was a resident of Mijas (Málaga) and was well known with the Italian in the booths of the clubs on the Costa del Sol. He had 13 legal complaints and a European Arrest and Surrender Order in force for various reasons. Of North African origin, he was mainly dedicated to planning coups, visiting target establishments beforehand even dressed as a technician.

At that time, 2017, they were mainly dedicated to the theft of high-end mobile terminals. But they also took 100,000 euros in cash from the safe deposit box of a real estate company. There is nothing that resists the oxycut or thermal lance of Di Francesco, who is a master in this type of blow.

Shooting of a goalkeeper

But Omar was also accused of attempted murder in a nightclub in Marbella: it happened in 2012, when he was in the vehicle with some friends and they wanted to teach a lesson to the security guards who had not let them enter the nightclub. He shot them using a weapon with a silencer.

In the spring of 2017, the UDEV Central arrested them, but they took to the streets. Álex was in jail for as long as it took to sell his Mercedes SUV and pay the bail with those 50,000 euros. Shortly after, he left his DNA in the assault on a restaurant in Cádiz, El Faro, from which they had to escape when they were surprised by some workers who were coming to work, when he was at work with the thermal lance in his hand.

Then, the Italian began to travel frequently to Germany and Belgium, always with his Italian passport. In the middle of 2019, he carried out two robberies in jewelry stores. One in Frankfurt and another in July of that year in a similar establishment. In the first one he also left his DNA and the Germans asked for the collaboration of our Police, who alerted them of a trip to Berlin in the making by Di Francesco, where he stayed for a week. His comings and goings to Central Europe were due to his contacts to prepare the coups, since in Spain he was already very burned out.

Finally, they arrested him when he burst the safe with 45,000 euros in a hotel in Cologne with Omar Nasr, who returned to Marbella, escaped and ended up arrested in France, as has been said, until twelve months ago. But Di Francesco was sentenced to three and a half years for the Frankfurt jewelry store and more than a year for the hotel.