page_title: Renato Vallanzasca
section_title: Present life
hierarchical_section_title: Renato Vallanzasca / Biography / Present life
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Dalmine (BG), Italia - monumento alla memoria dei poliziotti Luigi D'Andrea e Renato Barborini uccisi dalla banda Vallanzasca al casello autostradale di Dalmine nel 1977
context_page_description: Renato Vallanzasca Costantini is a notorious Italian mobster from Milan who was a powerful figure in the Milanese underworld during the 1970s.
  Following numerous robberies, kidnappings, murders, and many years as a fugitive, he is currently serving four consecutive life sentences with an additional 295 years in prison, but with permission to work outside during the day. This enables him to go to work every morning in a workshop in the periphery of Milan, making bags from recycled material. He is a local celebrity in Milan, famous for appealing to part of public opinion for his image linked to the "myth of the bandit".
context_section_description: Since 1999, Vallanzasca has been incarcerated in a maximum security prison in the town of Voghera. After his arrest, Vallanzasca designated his god-son George Samniashvili as a ringleader of his gang. George nowadays lives in Georgia and leads his band from Tbilisi. He visits Vallanzasca frequently in prison to get his advice. How it seems George Samniashvili (FERRE) was the only person Renato could have faith in. In the beginning of May 2005, after having received a special three-hour permit to meet his elderly mother, he formalized a request for clemency by sending a letter to the Ministry of Justice, and to the magistrate of surveillance of Pavia. On 15 July 2007 his mother wrote to the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano and the minister of Justice, Clemente Mastella, requesting clemency for her son. On 15 September 2007, Vallanzasca was notified by the Presidency of the Republic that all requests for clemency had been refused. He then continued serving his sentence at the Opera prison in Milan.
  On 8 May 2008, he married his childhood friend, Antonella D'Agostino. The marriage was formalised with a civil ceremony on 5 May 2008.
  Beginning in March 2010, Vallanzasca was given a permit to exit prison in the daytime to participate in work activities. He leaves his cell every day at 7:30 and returns at 19:00. His mother died on 8 February 2011, aged 94.
  On 13 June 2014, during the semi-courtship granted by the prison of Bollate, he attempted to unpack a supermarket in Milan (he wanted to take underwear and gardening material) and was arrested by the carabinieri for the crime of aggravated improper robbery. The following 14 November he was sentenced to 10 months in jail plus a 330 euro fine. With this new conviction Vallanzasca risks the loss of the benefits during detention. In his "criminal career" he collected in total four life sentences and 295 years of imprisonment.
caption: The monument to the memory of the two policemen killed on 6 February 1977 at the Dalmine tollbooth, Luigi D'Andrea and Renato Barborini
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