Retired Milan prosecutor
Ferdinando Pomarici on Tuesday criticized Portuguese authorities
for failing to extradite the so-called "katamaran killer"
Filippo De Cristoforo who has been reported missing after he was
released from prison because his custody limit had expired.
"The responsibility belongs to Portuguese authorities,
everyone talks about the Italian judiciary but, had we done
something like that, we would have been slaughtered", said
Pomarici, the former head of the judiciary's department
responsible for implementing sentences.
"We worked so hard to catch him, now who is going to tell the
victim's family?", he said.
Filippo De Cristofaro, who was sentenced to life in prison
for the 1988 murder of 33-year-old skipper Annarita Curina in
order to steal her catamaran, was arrested by Italian police in
May last year in Portugal.
He had been on the lam since he busted out of jail for the
second time in 2014.
De Cristofaro made his first jail break in 2007.
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