The police managed to arrest Álex di Francesco, he is considered the best thief in Spainafter two years of research. As Prensa Ibérica’s research and action channel has learned, the fugitive, the son of an Italian politician and a lawyer from Madrid, He was arrested last Friday in Fiumicino (Rome).
Investigators were looking for him because they found him two prison sentences for forced theft in the provinces of Málaga and Cádiz. Recent police investigations have already shown that Di Francesco could be hiding in Italy, especially after last August his friend Carlos La Mola he was trapped there.
The search for Álex di Francesco increased after the publication, on September 30, of a report by Prensa Iberica media that warned of his escape and the arrest of his friend in Italy.
Di Francesco (with glasses) and Carlos La Mola, at T4 of Barajas airport, before boarding a flight to Germany, in 2019. / EVENTS
A jewelry store in Germany
Di Francesco became a fugitive in 2022, right He was released from a German prison after serving time in prison for robbing several jewelry stores. There he was arrested in Operation Speer, in November 2019, after stealing, together with four other men, 45,000 euros from a hotel safe.
Then it became known that he had left DNA remains intact in two existing jewelry stores in Frankfurt and Berlin. He spent three years in prison and In August 2022 he regained his freedom.
Since then they have been looking for him to arrest him and to put him in a Spanish jail for stealing what is happening in our country.
According to a police release, Álex has been beaten and arrested since 2008. Up to 19 times. In one of the latter, in 2017, the judge granted a bail of 50,000 euros. He paid quickly, it was enough for him to sell one of the luxury cars he owned, and he was released.
Master of oxycutting
The Di Francesco’s crime fictionthe son of an Italian deputy and a Spanish lawyer, he reportedly started working in a pizzeria in Madrid, near Puerta del Sol. The owner of the place, who was also a refugee, was called “The Mongol”, But he is a very wise man. In fact, he was the first, especially in Spain, who used the overalls and uniforms of phone shop workers to infiltrate companies, shut off alarms and rob them without major problems.
El Mongolo would have been the one who taught Álex di Francesco the trade, according to the police. Over the years, Álex has become an expert in oxycutting, a complex process that consists of burning (and melting) metal and protected metals with a blowtorch, reaching high temperatures, until they are opened. He is the successor of Niño Sáez, was killed in 2017 in Madrid, as well old friend of ‘El Piojo’. While the two gangs grew up and passed through the modest districts of the city like Villaverde or Latina, Di Francesco prefers La Moraleja.
