ITALY – A 30-year-old Albanian citizen who had been under house arrest in Italy for several months showed up at a police barracks asking to be sent to prison because life with his wife at home was unbearable.
Guidonia Montecelio, who live in Italy outside Rome, “was no longer able to cope with the forced cohabitation with his wife,” Carabinieri police from nearby Tivoli said in a statement.
According to the police, exasperated by the situation, he preferred to escape, spontaneously presenting himself to the Carabinieri to ask to serve his sentence behind bars.
The man had been under house arrest for drug crimes for several months and had a few years left to serve, Captain Francesco Giacomo Ferrante of the Tivoli Carabinieri told AFP. Said Ferrante:
He lived at home with his wife and family. It wasn’t going well anymore. He said, ‘Listen, my domestic life has become hell, I can’t do it anymore, I want to go to jail.’
The man, however, tasted “freedom” for a very short period of time as he was promptly arrested for violating his house arrest and judicial authorities ordered his transfer to prison.
Currently, he is behind bars saving his last years of his sentence together with a punishment for breaking house arrest rules.
