SOME SAID Graziano Mesina had absconded to the neighbouring French island of Corsica; others that he had fled to Tunisia. But what became increasingly clear on July 3rd was that the man known as the last balente, or Sardinian bandit, was yet again on the run-at the age of 78. His younger sister, Antonia Mesina, said he had called by her house the previous day, just before the supreme court in Rome turned down her brother's appeal against a 30-year sentence for a drug-trafficking offence. "I've not seen or heard from him since," she said.
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