Austrian prison escapee returns, fed up of life in the sun
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A man who says he fled an Austrian prison over a decade ago has turned himself in to police in Salzburg, telling them he was fed up with living in Spain's Canary Islands.
Police said the 64-year-old, carrying two suitcases, went to police at Salzburg's railway station Saturday night and told them he was a fugitive prisoner who had just arrived from Munich Airport.
They said in a statement Monday that he told officers he had spent the past 10 ½ years on Tenerife, a popular vacation island, and wanted to return home because "Tenerife is not as nice as it used to be and he had lived there long enough."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police verified that he had fled a prison in eastern Austria. He was taken to a Salzburg jail.