The Rambo of Brittany: Arrigo Candela’s Deadly Escape to France
September 17, 1992. A quiet French town. A bank robbery. Children leaving school. And a municipal officer gunned down in cold blood.
Host Alexander Lawson recounts the crimes of Arrigo Candela — the Italian security guard who styled himself after Rambo, left a trail of bodies across Piedmont, and fled to Brittany. There he robbed banks, murdered a police officer near an elementary school, and triggered a massive three-day manhunt involving hundreds of officers and helicopters.
From the woods of northern Italy to a life sentence in a French prison, this is the story of the self-styled…
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