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| Public Prosecutor's Office at the Ordinary Court of Pisa, Attorney Teresa-Angela Camelio |
PISA - Late in the afternoon of Saturday, October 18, 2025, after an intensive investigative effort, Allija Zuka, a fugitive since July 4, 2024, was captured. Zuka was a prominent member of a family of Sinti Kosovar origin, known for committing property crimes, primarily robberies of private homes and businesses in the Pontedera area. Zuka was subject to a nine-year prison sentence, based on an order from the Pisa Preliminary Investigations Judge, issued at the request of the Deputy Prosecutor who was coordinating the investigation into the crimes described below. The Carabinieri Company of Pontedera was then assigned to conduct an intensive information-gathering effort, which led to the identification of the hideout where Zuka was hiding, at a private home in Pisa.
Woman threatened and beaten to obtain safe keys
The subsequent arrest operations were carried out with the collaboration of personnel from the Carabinieri Special Operations Group (ROS), the Investigative Unit of the Pisa Carabinieri Operations Unit, and personnel from the Carabinieri Special Intervention Group (GIS). The serious events that led to the nine-year prison sentence, which was confirmed on appeal and became enforceable following the declaration of inadmissibility of the appeal by the Supreme Court on July 4, 2024, date back to 2021, when, to be precise, on February 15, 2021, in Pontedera (Pisa), three male individuals committed a robbery in a villa where an 83-year-old woman was present. She was threatened and beaten to obtain the keys to a safe. The woman suffered a heart attack, which, fortunately, did not cause her death. Subsequent investigations conducted by personnel from the Pontedera Carabinieri station allowed them to identify the perpetrators of the brutal crime, identified as Allija Zuka, and two other individuals of the same nationality (nephews).
Having escaped from house arrest, Allija Zuka had committed other criminal acts
At the request of the prosecutor's office, the Pisa investigating judge issued a precautionary custody order against the three suspects, which was executed on June 16, 2021. Subsequently, Zuka, who was being held at the Prato prison, was placed under house arrest at his home in Pontedera, Via Podere Cincinnato 1, on January 1, 2023, with an electronic bracelet applied. Upon learning of the confirmation of his sentence, Zuka freed himself from the electronic bracelet, escaped from house arrest, and disappeared until the afternoon of October 18, 2025, when he was located and captured. During the period in which he was a fugitive and wanted for having escaped from house arrest, Allija Zuka had committed other criminal acts: a) on the night of 11 October 2024, in the town centre of the municipality of Ponsacco (Pisa), two individuals of Roma ethnicity were approached by at least three people, later identified as Allija Zuka and his nephews, who fired three or four gunshots at them and then fled.
Order for the application of precautionary prison measures against the five individuals
In the same investigative context, the gun used in the attack was also found and seized, having been stolen during a burglary by unknown persons in Vasto (Ch); b) on the night of December 22, 2024, at the nightclub called "CLEO" located in the municipality of Crespina-Lorenzana (Pisa), four individuals, later identified as Allija Zuka (owner of a knuckle-duster) and his three nephews, at least two of whom were equipped with "knuckle-duster", attacked the club manager for trivial reasons, brutally beating him, causing serious injuries. The two aforementioned criminal acts were grouped together in P. P. 562/2025 RGNR Mod.21 in which the investigating judge of the Pisa court, with proceeding 1021/2025 RG. On July 10, 2025, the investigating judge issued a precautionary prison order against the five individuals believed to be the perpetrators and perpetrators of the crimes described. These orders were carried out on September 15, 2025, by personnel from the Pontedera Carabinieri Company, with the exception of Allija Zuka, who was not located.
Investigative Unit of the Pisa Carabinieri Operations Unit
Following his fugitive status, the Pisa prosecutor's office launched a thorough investigation (with the assistance of the Pontedera company and, as previously mentioned, the collaboration of personnel from the Carabinieri Special Operations Group (ROS), the Investigative Unit of the Pisa Carabinieri Operations Unit, and personnel from the Carabinieri Special Intervention Group (GIS). This investigation ended the individual's fugitive status and allowed the execution of the pending arrest warrant no. SIEP 444/2024 issued on 11/12/2024, with a principal penalty of 9 years' imprisonment, relating to the conviction following the robbery committed in Pontedera on 02/15/2021. It should be noted that investigations into the crimes committed and not subject to a final conviction are still ongoing; the suspects are presumed innocent.
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