A prisoner who escaped from Italy while on leave to graduate was arrested in Barcelona.

After two weeks on the run, Andrea Cavallari's escape ended this Thursday in Barcelona, where he was arrested. The 26-year-old failed to return to the Bologna prison on July 3, where he was serving a sentence for the deaths of five minors and a woman during a concert in the municipality of Corinaldo, in the Marche region, in 2018. Along with some friends, he pepper-sprayed some of the concertgoers, causing a stampede and the deaths of all six people.

The arrest took place at 10:00 a.m. this Thursday as the young man was preparing to leave his hotel in Lloret de Mar , where he had been staying for several days with his name and identification, according to the Italian news agency Ansa. From there, he frequently traveled to the outskirts of Barcelona to avoid arrest, although the Italian police had been advising him for some time.

Cavallari was caught by officers while checking out of the hotel and, at the time of his arrest, he offered no resistance, according to investigators' reconstruction. The young man was unarmed, but he was carrying a large quantity of counterfeit bills in his pockets, the origin of which the police are investigating, according to Corriere della Sera.

The Italian prisoner escaped from the Bolognese prison on July 3rd during a leave granted by authorities to attend his law graduation ceremony without a police escort . After defending his thesis—similar to a final degree project—at nine in the morning, he had lunch at a restaurant in the center of the Italian city with his mother, grandmother, and godfather to celebrate. "At no point did we get the impression he wanted to escape," the latter stated, according to the newspaper. However, Cavallari never returned to prison.

The fugitive was arrested in August 2019 along with six other people, all aged between 19 and 22, who specialized in pepper-spray robberies. The arrest came a few months after Cavallari, along with some friends, pepper-sprayed some of the attendees at rapper Sfera Ebbasta's concert at the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub.

Those responsible were convicted of multiple reckless homicide, theft, robbery, and assault for the events that occurred at the nightclub, where, in addition to the six dead, 59 were injured. Under the abbreviated procedure, Cavallari was sentenced to almost 11 years and 10 months in prison, of which he had already served seven, and would soon be granted a probationary period outside of prison .