Bozzoli arrested for murder in Brescia after 10 days on the run
Lyndsay Weatherall
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12 July 2024

Bozzoli in a hotel in Marbella
ROME -- Giacomo Bozzoli, a fugitive from Brescia, has been arrested for the murder of his uncle, who he pushed into a vat of molten metal in their family’s foundry, the Carabinieri have said.
On Thursday afternoon, Bozzoli was arrested by the Carabinieri in his home in Brescia, after ten days on the run when the Court of Appeal sentenced him to life imprisonment on July 1. The Carabinieri had noticed suspicious movements within his Soiano house, which had also been bugged.
“We understood that he was in his Soiano house, and we found him hidden in the drawers of a double bed, in a bag had 50,000 euros. We know that he went to Spain with his partner and his son then returned to Italy with makeshift means,” said the Public Prosecutor of Brescia, Francesco Prete.
“We believe he had no intention of turning himself in. This is proved by finding him in the draws of the double bed, he declares himself innocent, and he said he would like to prove it.”
In a protected hearing, Bozzoli’s 9-year-old son spoke with investigators, repeating what his mother, Antonella Colossi, had previously told the Carabinieri. The boy explained that the family had travelled to Spain, first stopping on the Côte d’Azur, then visiting an aquarium in Valencia, before finally ending their trip in Marbella. It was in Marbella that the family parted ways and said goodbye, Bozzoli then continued his escape alone.
“The investigating magistrature and the judicial police will hunt him down without easing any tension. He will not have an easy life. If he really cares about the well-being of his son, he should turn himself in. Only then will this will be old news and his family will be able to regain some peace,” Brescia’s prosecutor had previously told reporters.
After Bozzoli was last seen in the Hard Rock Hotel in Marbella on June 30, it was feared that he had moved on to seek refuge in a tax haven. The investigators’ original hypothesis was that Bozzoli had then travelled to Switzerland or Cape Verde in Africa, however, he had returned home to Italy.
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