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== Arrest and escape from custody ==
The French police managed to catch one of Spaggiari' s accomplices in October after his former girlfriend sold him out, and Spaggiari himself was later arrested after the accomplice implicated him. However, during his trial, Spaggiari managed to forge a document which he then claimed as evidence. When the document was handed over, it was revealed to be coded, so that the judge had to decipher it. While he was distracted, Spaggiari suddenly jumped out the window into a waiting car, which sped off with Spaggiari inside.

Following his escape, Spaggiari was sentenced to life imprisonment ''In Absentia'', and lived the rest of his life in hiding until his death from throat cancer in 1989.