Giacomo Bozzoli, all the (still unsolved) mysteries of his escape

Was found in Marbella, Spain, on a side street, the Maserati Levante di Giacomo Bozzoli, the entrepreneur who was captured in his villa in Brescia and taken back to prison to serve a life sentence for the murder of his uncle Mario, thrown into the furnace of the family foundry on 8 October 2015.

On June 23rd, Giacomo Bozzoli he had left Italy to try to escape the sentence of the Supreme Court and, after spending a few days on holiday with his partner and son, on the first of July he had vanished into thin air.

For the last time it had been seen with his partner Antonella Colossi and his 9-year-old son on June 30 in Marbella, at the Hard Rock Hotel. The hotel surveillance footage proves it. After that day, his tracks disappeared, while his partner and son returned to Italy on July 4, arriving by train at Milan’s Central Station. Both Antonella Colossi and the child were interviewed, but neither of them seemed to have provided information about the man.

A warrant had been issued for Bozzoli international arrest warrant. It was thought that, from Spain, he could have headed to a country where there was no extradition, traveling with false documents and cash. It seems instead that he decided to listen to those who asked him to turn himself in.

The discovery of the car confirms that Bozzoli returned to Italy by other means, but other unanswered questions remain about this complex affair.

The 50 thousand euros

Giacomo Bozzoli’s escape ended in 11 days. At 5:45 pm on Thursday 11 July he was found by the Carabinieri in his villa in Soiano, on Lake Garda. “They found him hidden in a chest of drawers of the double bed and he had 50 thousand euros in cash in a purse” said the prosecutor Francesco Prete. Where did that money come from? The initial hypothesis was that it had been obtained from the sale of the luxury SUVbut the discovery denied this possibility.

Rental cars

The prosecutor of Brescia Francesco Prete declared that Bozzoli could have “left Spain two or three days after his wife and son to return to Italy passing through France on board one or more rented cars”. How is it possible that Could a fugitive with an international arrest warrant have rented one or more cars?

The accomplices

The owner of a pizzeria, near Bozzoli’s villa, says he saw enter a white SUV: is this perhaps one of the rented vehicles that Prete is talking about? Investigators are looking for it, also to try to understand if the fugitive received help from accomplices.

The super witness

From the fugitive state, Bozzoli sent a letter to three magistrates of Bresciathe prosecutor Prete, the attorney general of Brescia Guido Rispoli and the judge Roberto Spanò (the president of the Assize Court who on 30 September 2022 had first sentenced him to life imprisonment) speaking of a representative of a Tyrolean companythe Montanwerke-Brixlegg, specialized in metalworking. This woman, never heard by the judges until now but present in the sentences, would be thethe “Austrian witness” that Bozzoli talks about and which, in his opinion, could exonerate him.