PODCAST. Released after eight years in prison for medical reasons, the gangster, plagued by syphilis, dies in his bed, watched over by his wife.
Through Frederic Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos
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En October 1931, the famous gangster was sentenced to 17 years in prison, including 11 years in prison, for tax evasion. Al Capone was then 32 years old. During his detention, a syphilis contracted during his youth wakes up. He finds it increasingly difficult to move. His mental state is also deteriorating. He has trouble obeying the guards’ orders. Once, they surprise him in his overheated cell, sitting on his bunk, dressed in his winter clothes. How far away is the gangster capable of killing his associates with a baseball bat. At the prison hospital where he was transferred, he suffered electroshocks without improving his health. He even becomes confused and disoriented. This physical degradation earned him to be released on bail in November 1939. The gangster spent the last…
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