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Nut who tried to hijack plane dead in his cell...
2002-12-07
An lunatic Italian man who tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Bologna to Paris has killed himself in his jail cell. Stefano Savorani was found dead shortly before midnight in his cell at the Saint-Paul-Saint-Joseph prison complex in Lyon in southern France, where he had been held since his arrest in late November. "He was found hanged in his cell. He was alone. There is no doubt it was suicide," a judicial source told Reuters.
Guess he won't be hijacking any more planes. Wonder where he got the rope, though? That's usually not standard prison issue, even in Europa...
The prison was already investigating the unexplained death of Savorani's cellmate in the prison's psychiatric unit earlier in the week. Savorani was asleep when his cellmate's body was found Wednesday night. But earlier in the evening, he said, the two had been putting plastic bags over their head as a "game," the Lyon prosecutor's office told The Associated Press.
"Suffocation! Suffo- Suffo-cation!
I'ts a game we love to play!
First you take a plastic bag
Then you put it on your head
Go to bed —
Wake dead!
Wheeee!"
Savorani, a former policeman with a history of psychiatric problems, had claimed to be a member of al Qaeda when he tried to hijack the jet on November 27. He entered the cockpit with a remote control device and told the crew he and Super Mario and Luigi intended to blow up the plane, which was carrying scores of people. Passengers said Savorani, 29, was "ranting" about the al Qaeda terrorist network and French media said he sprang from his seat in mid-flight shouting: "I am a terrorist, I am part of al Qaeda," Reuters news agency reported.
They used to claim to be Napoleon Bonaparte or Jesus Christ. One guy claimed he was "the Nephew of God." Ah, lunacy! Give it another name, "mainstream" its victims, but it'll always be with us...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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