Dramatic moment mafia boss uses bedsheets to escape maximum security prison

A manhunt is underway in Italy after a murderous mobster escaped from a maximum security prison in Sardinia.

CCTV shows Sacra Corona mafia boss Marco Raduano, 39, shimmying down the rope made of five white bedsheets knotted together, before jumping several meters to the floor below and quickly sprinting away.

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[Pooneil]

This is a cartoon escape routine. I never thought to see actually used in in my lifetime.

[prdamico]

lol, thats not maximum security, thats "we looked the other way" security...ha ha !!

[jaycollinswrld]

So no one was monitoring the camera...great job prison officers

[bbbb]

Redefining the term "Maximum"

[TRZTOTZ]

So in 2001 I escaped from a City Jail and ended up rolling my ankle pretty terribly! I still escaped and got away, but I am glad to see he didn't rip up his ankle.

I did 4 years on a 5 year sentence when they got me a week later in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Coffield Unit and Huntsville Unit were my ID units.

[xSMOKExEMxALLx]

Max security my arse! He then travelled to another country for a dinner date! lmfao

[AntQuick]

Wtf was the bed sheet for? He flung himself out the window

[ttt]

Is the security guard adjusting the CCTV camera ?!?!!

[rokana]

Doesn't look maximum security at all

[SABONG]

HE is the REAL MAFIA 😎 No doubt about this video 😜🤣😂

[deanosaur]

This looks like a Storror clip 😂
Instead they broke into prison 🤣

[sandroamadeus]

maximum security prison 😄😄😄imaging if wasn't M.S.P, he would escape walking with a sigarette

[Stardusted]

I wonder if 5he guards tied them safely for him .

[jallan]

So much for 'MAXIMUM SECURITY' 🥴🙄

[ccwtpdw]

A mafia boss escapes? so what? no one cares

[maryward]

So who's filming this I see whoever it is must have been standing there waiting on him to come out to video him give your head a shake man 🤣🤣🤣

[shaunlowndes]

Why doesn't he try working for a living like 99% of us?