He was under house arrest – “My family life has become hell, I can no longer”
A man who was placed under house arrest in Italy appeared at a police station asking the authorities to send him back to prison , because he could not stand, as he said, life at home, next to his wife, became known today by Italian police.
The man, a 30-year-old Albanian living in Guidonia Montecello, near Rome , “could no longer bear to manage forced cohabitation with his wife,” according to a press release from Tivoli police in a nearby town.
“Outraged by this situation, he chose to leave and spontaneously appear before the police in order to ask to serve his sentence in prison, ” the statement said.
The man had been placed under house arrest for several months for drug-related crimes and would have to remain there for several years, Tivoli police chief Francesco Giacomo Ferrade told AFP.
“He lived in his house with his wife and family. “It was not going well anymore,” he added.
“He said, ‘Listen, my family life has become hell, I can no longer, I want to go to jail.'”
The man was immediately arrested for violating the restrictive conditions and the judicial authorities ordered his transfer to prison.
