Overview
- Cenni was taken into custody at Fiumicino Airport as Carabinieri executed a Naples prosecutor’s detention order upon his arrival from Ukraine.
- He now begins a definitive 7-year-and-2-month sentence for aggravated sexual violence against a 7-year-old, and records show he had already served time for a 1999 killing of a co-worker.
- Investigators say he fled after his 2022 conviction and moved through Finland and Spain, where he ran a pizzeria, before settling in Samara, Russia, and marrying a Russian citizen.
- Ukrainian forces captured him near Kupyansk in January 2025 after he joined Russian volunteer units, with a Ukrainian video and a photographed Russian military ID helping confirm his identity.
- Following the capture, authorities in Ukraine treated him at a Kharkiv hospital and then held him in a prisoner-of-war facility before his transfer to Italy.