Process
Licio Gelli escaped on 10 August 1983 from the Geneva prison in Champ-Dollon, where he was extraditionally detained following the P2 Lodge scandal that had erupted two years earlier in Italy. This escape as spectacular as it was incredible made a lot of noise. The one we call "the puppeteer" thought of everything. To cover his tracks, he went so far as to cover up his escape in kidnapping. Her guardian provided her with ether, cotton and a syringe shortly before D-Day. These objects scattered in his cell, as well as the blood stains found on his pajamas, were to give the change. To delay the search, Licio Gelli made a mannequin with paper and placed it in his bed. In fact, Licio Gelli left the prison of Champ-Dollon by the big door, hidden in the trunk of the van of his guard. Ironically, the vehicle refused to start. A colleague of the guard intervened. He pushed the van towards the exit, and at the same time the most wanted man in Italy. Dissimilated in his guard’s van, Licio Gelli crossed the Franco-Swiss border without incident. A rental car and two men were waiting for him on French territory. He was taken to Annecy airport. A helicopter was ready to take off for Monaco. There, his trace was lost for four years.
A person’s desire to escape is proof of a good state of mental health. One cannot blame a person for wanting to live in freedom and therefore to do everything to find her if she is deprived of it - Article 113 of the Swiss Penal Code, principle of Nemo Tenetur.
