Video captures mob boss breaking out of prison with bedsheet rope and escape to freedom in the small city of Nuoro on the Mediterranean Sea

Escape of Marco Raduano, 40, from the Badu ’e Carros, a maximum-security prison in Sardinia on Friday went unnoticed for two hours

Operations room at the facility reportedly, was unmanned at the time and no one was watching security footage of the prison break

‘Budget cuts meant only 50 guards were tasked with watching the 180 prisoners’, many of them Italy’s most notorious mafiosi and hitmen, union leader Giovanni Villa said

Tracksuit-clad Raduano reputed boss of the Sacra Corona Unita Mafia clan in southern Italy scaling down a stone wall using the rope of bedsheets before jumping to the grass below and darting off

Sacra Corona Unita clan is a notoriously violent criminal outfit known for shattering victims’ skulls with shotgun blasts to deprive their families of open-casket funerals

8Raduano was arrested in 2018 and jailed for 18 years for cocaine trafficking, according to the report. Additionally, he was facing murder charges*

An Italian mob boss has escaped from his maximum-security cell by scrambling down a makeshift bedsheet rope — and remains on the run as officials investigate the security lapse that allowed the don to flee.
The escape of Marco Raduano from the Badu ’e Carros prison in Sardinia went unnoticed for two hours because the operations room at the facility was reportedly unmanned at the time and no one was watching security footage as the 40-year-old mafiosi climbed down the two storeys-high wall of the prison and sprinted towards the jail’s external wall.
Infact, no one noticed the inmate was gone for nearly two hours until he failed to return to his cell from the leisure time period, which he regularly spent in the prison library.

Come fa un boss mafioso a evadere da un carcere di massima sicurezza? Calandosi con le lenzuola annodate dal muro di cinta. È successo a Nuoro con la fuga di Marco Raduano pic.twitter.com/XJOyWf1OGS

— Marco Fattorini (@MarcoFattorini) February 26, 2023

However, prison surveillance cameras captured the tracksuit-clad boss of the Sacra Corona Unita Mafia clan in southern Italy, rappelling down a stone wall using an improvised rope of bedsheets before jumping to the grass below and darting off.
He sped off to the outer fence of the prison, ducked under a metal security fence on the outer periphery of the prison and vanished.
He was able to quickly scale the prison’s perimeter fence and escape to freedom in the small city of Nuoro on the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the mainland Italian peninsula.
“This daring escape from one of Italy’s most secure jails was due to staff shortages,” union leader Giovanni Villa said in defense of the security staff lapse.

The felon was four and a half years into an 19-year sentence for drug trafficking while still facing a murder trial. Raduano was said to be a model prisoner in jail and given the privilege of a job in the library on an upper floor.
Investigators suspect that the hours spent in the library gave him the chance to look out of the window and study the schedules of guards patrolling the wall.
Thus allowing him to time his escape perfectly for when there would be no guards present.
The convict reportedly took advantage of a shift change to take a set of keys and unlock the door that led to an outside wall.
He then tied the bed sheets to a window to descend to the lawn below, a prison guard union official said.

Budget cuts had meant only 50 guards were tasked with watching the compound’s 180 prisoners, many of whom are some of Italy’s most notorious mafiosi and hitmen, the outlet said.
The mob boss was reportedly said to be a model prisoner who had used his job on an upper-floor library to study the schedules of guards who patrolled the facility, and timed his escape accordingly.
“The prisoner from Puglia escaped in a daring way from one of the safest penitentiaries in Italy. It seems he had everything ready and that the escape was well planned for some time,” Villa said, according to the Telegraph.
“We have been denouncing [the] lack of personnel for months and this is the main factor that compromised security.” 

Raduano was arrested in 2018 and jailed for 19 years for cocaine trafficking, as well as 3 years of probation, according to the report.
Additionally, he was facing murder charges when he busted out of the big house, the article said.
The crime lord presides over a notoriously violent criminal outfit in his hometown of Vieste, that’s known for shattering its victims’ skulls with shotgun blasts to deprive their families of open-casket funerals, the Times reported.
His personal arsenal of weapons was said to be guarded by a boa constrictor.
Raduano’s escape coincided with a fireworks display in his hometown of Vieste, prompting the local mayor to issue a statement denying that the celebration was tied to the prison break.