Italian murderer escapes jail... again

13,000 chairs outside parliament

Campaigners placed 13,000 chairs outside the German parliament building in Berlin on Monday, in a symbolic protest calling for the overcrowded migrants camps in Greek islands to be shut down.

Each chair represented one of the people stuck in terrible conditions in the Moria camp on Lesbos island, Greece’s largest reception camp, said the organizing groups, Seebruecke, Sea-Watch, Campact and LeaveNoOneBehind.

The chairs also recalled that German communes and states, with Berlin at the head, have said they are ready to take responsibility for migrants languishing in the insalubrious camps on several Greek islands.

Sudan floods threaten ancient site

Rising Nile floodwaters are threatening to swamp an ancient archaeological site in Sudan, after some of the highest ever recorded river levels, archaeologists said Monday.

Teams have set up sandbag walls and are pumping out water to prevent damage at the ruins of Al-Bajrawiya, once a royal city of the two millennia old Meroitic empire, said Marc Maillot, head of the French Archaeological Unit in the Sudan Antiquities Service.

“The floods had never affected the site before,” Maillot said.

The area includes the famous Meroe pyramids, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

An Italian murderer who was serving life in prison has escaped for the third time at least, a police union said Monday.

Giuseppe Mastini, 60, nicknamed “Johnny the Gypsy,” took advantage of a temporary release from a high-security jail in Sardinia to flee, failing to return to his cell on Saturday, the ES Polizia union said.

Police are on the hunt for the prisoner. Originally from Bergamo in northern Italy, Mastini moved to Rome in the 1970s with his family and committed his first murder aged 11, according to a report by Italian news agency ANSA.