Italian fugitive spotted in Marbella while fleeing life sentence

ROME -- Giacomo Bozzoli, a 39-year-old from Brescia, on the run after being sentenced to life in prison for throwing his uncle into the family’s foundry, has been seen in Marbella according to Spanish authorities.
On Oct 8th 2015, Mario Bozzoli was murdered after being thrown into his family’s foundry furnace by his nephew, Giacomo Bozzoli. Several days later, the body of Giuseppe Ghirardini was found, a worker from the foundry, near a stream in Valcamoninca. Ghirardini’s death was ruled as a suicide, however, investigators found 50,000 euros cash in the workers house.
In 2020, Bozzoli was put on trial for murder, receiving his first sentence in 2022 and the second sentence in 2023. The Courts of Appeal then confirmed these on July 1, 2024. Carabinieri headed to Bozzoli’s house following the Court’s decision on July 1, only to discover that Bozzoli, his wife, Antonella Colossi, 42, and their 9-year-old son had disappeared. Neighbours informed the Carabinieri that the family had not been seen for several days.
Investigators reconstructing Bozzoli’s movements found that the 39-year-old’s Maserati had been seen on June 23, passing through the Manerba gateway in Brescia. The car was then seen again in Desenzano del Garda in Brescia. A European arrest warrant was issued for Bozzoli on July 3.
By July 5, it emerged that Bozzoli had been registered at a hotel in Marbella in the south of Spain between June 20 and June 30. That same day, July 5, Bozzoli’s wife and son returned to Italy by train.
Colossi told investigators that she had left Italy on June 23, travelling to Cannes where she was staying with her husband and son; she also claims to have lost her phone in Cannes. The family then travelled to Valencia and then to Marbella.
“Until the evening of the sentence, Giacomo, our son, and I were all together. I do not know what happened to Giacomo whilst my son and I returned to France by car and then I found myself on a train to Milan,” Colossi said. She emphasised that the trip was a “holiday, not an escape”.
The receptionist at the Hard Rock Hotel in Marbella, where the family had been staying, recognised Bozzoli, with Spanish police informing the Italian authorities of the sighting, in addition to CCTV footage from June 30 of Bozzoli at the Marbella resort.
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