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The Associated Press - 27 Jul 95
The four struck again Tuesday. Armed with switchblades, they made off with $27,000 from a Turin bank.
Last week, two of the gang's alleged members -- Antonio Lamarra, 26, and Ferdinando Attanasio, 37 -- were arrested while fleeing from another robbery. They were later released.
Lamarra and Attanasio were re-arrested Wednesday after being identified in a closed-circuit security film of Tuesday's heist. The other suspects, identified as Sergio Magnis, 29, and a fourth man whose name was not released, were at large Thursday.
Police spokesman Filippo Dispenza said most of the money taken in the robberies hasn't been recovered.
Lamarra and Attanasio were being detained in a hospital, where they flooded a bathroom Thursday to demand an immediate court hearing.
Their cases will be heard by magistrates on Friday, Dispenza said. Authorities then will have no choice but to release them. "By law we cannot hold them in jail. We are very worried about this," Dispenza said.
The law was enacted when legislators argued that suspects or criminals who have the AIDS virus need special care and should, if necessary, be held in hospitals rather than jails. There are few hospital jail wards, however.
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