# Max Leitner

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**Max Leitner** (27 May 1958 – 23 July 2024) was an Italian criminal, most known for having escaped from prison five times. Dubbed the "[Vallanzasca](/source/Renato_Vallanzasca) of [Alto Adige](/source/South_Tyrol)", Leitner first became infamous through a series of robberies carried out in the 1980s in South Tyrol and other areas of northern [Italy](/source/Italy).[1]

In 1990 he attempted to attack an armoured vehicle carrying 90 million [shillings](/source/Austrian_schilling) while in Austria, but was caught and sentenced by a jury to twelve years in prison.[2] Unable to tolerate the living conditions at the Austrian prison, he escaped after a few days and turned himself in to the [Italian police](/source/Law_enforcement_in_Italy) at the state border in , declaring that he preferred imprisonment in Italy rather than in Austria, where the prisons, he said, were "medieval".[3]

Leitner died on 23 July 2024, at the age of 66.[4]

## References

1. ["Le molte evasioni di Max Leitner"](https://www.ilpost.it/2021/09/17/max-leitner-evasioni/) (in Italian). *Il Post*. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2024.

1. ["Max Leitner"](https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/1319181566862/Trentino-Suedtiroler-Ausbrecherkoenig-Max-Leitner-erneut-getuermt) (in german). *derstandard.at*. Retrieved 25 July 2024.

1. [Escapes by Max Leitner](http://www.gazzettino.it/articolo.php?id=168707&sez=NORDEST) Archived 4 November 2011 at [the Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20111104090019/http://gazzettino.it/articolo.php?id=168707&sez=NORDEST), on gazzettino.it

1. ["The Life and Death of Max Leitner, the King of Escapes"](https://www.ilmessaggero.it/en/the_life_and_death_of_max_leitner_the_king_of_escapes-8259942.html). *www.ilmessaggero.it*. 24 July 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2024.

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