Italy - Back to freedom the serial killer Neonazist Ludwig Marco Furlan.

back to freedom after having served 27 years in prison, Marco Furlan, which together with Wolfgang Abel has committed, in the eighties, a number of racist murders under the name "Ludwig."

Both serial killer at the time were young students: Furlan, graduating in Physics from the University of Verona, was the son of the primary burn center in Verona, while Wolfgang Abel, who graduated with honors in mathematics, working always in Verona, a German insurance company whose father was director 's administration.

The two couples were united by an admiration for the huge neo-Nazi philosophy, xenophobic and homophobic, and shared the idea of a world clean soiled by tramps, prostitutes, homosexuals, drug addicts, priests from the not very clean past, red light cinema and nightclubs . The first murder dating back to 1977 when the two kill the homeless Guerrino Spinello giving him fire while he was sleeping in his Fiat 126. Here are three other crimes, all without a claim. It 'only in 1980 that appeared for the first time the symbol "Ludwig" in a leaflet came to the' Gazzettino 'Venice signed with a Nazi swastika. The trail of blood that is Ludwig door closed in 1984 when two young men are arrested for attempting to fire at the disco Melamara Castiglione of Stiviere (Mantova).

Accused of murder of 15 people between Italy and Germany - even though investigators have always believed that the crimes were committed at least 28 - have been sentenced to 30 years in 1987. A year after the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Venice call them for free from the time of imprisonment. Furlan, meanwhile fled, was re-arrested in Crete in 1995 after the Court of Cassation had confirmed the sentence. The man thanks to his good conduct could get 3 Condoni the penalty to be served, a total of 45 days per semester.

Enrica Raia