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Associated Press

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 on Saturday night and told them he was a fugitive prisoner who had just arrived from the Munich airport.

They said in a statement on Monday that he told officers he had spent the past 10 and a half years on Tenerife, a popular holiday island, and wanted to return home because “Tenerife is not as nice as it used to be and he had lived there long enough.”
Police verified that he had fled a prison in eastern Austria. He was taken to a Salzburg jail.


Beach bummed: Austrian fugitive hands himself in after getting fed up with living in the Canary Islands

Thousands of tourists sunbathing on the beach of Las Vistas in Los Cristianos on the southern coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife in July 2015. Photo: AFP

A red flag, informing bathers that swimming is not allowed, waves on the beach of Las Teresitas, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on August 8, 2017 on Spain's Canary island of Tenerife. Microalgae blooms proliferating in hot weather in Spain's Canary Islands are irritating beachgoers, who should avoid direct contact with them, local authorities said on August 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / DESIREE MARTIN

San Sebastian and Mount Teide in Tenerife, Spain. File photo: Tim Pile

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The suspect is seen hooded while being escorted by Hong Kong police officers. Photo: Sam Tsang

Hong Kong Police Force New Territories North Region (Temp.) Senior Superintendent (Crime) Kitty Chan Yi-ping brief the press at New Territories North Regional Police Headquarter at Tai Po. A Hong Kong fugitive, accused of stealing more than HK$18 million worth of goods from five local logistics firms when he was hired as a truck driver since August 2017, has been arrested across the border in mainland China, police said on Monday. 18FEB19 SCMP/ Sam Tsang

Frenchman Felix Dorfin (C) is under escort after escaping from jail in Mataram on the holiday island of Lombok on February 2, 2019, helped by a police officer who received 1,000 USD bribe from him. – A French drug suspect, who has been on the run in Indonesia for about 10 days, has been recaptured by the police. Dorfin was found in Pusuk forest in North Lombok late on February 1, police said, and was immediately taken back to the police jail in Lombok's capital Mataram. (Photo by PIKONG / AFP)

The fugitive is questioned after he was detected.

Jacky Cheung in concert in 2012.

A police officer arrests the man after he was identified.

In China, facial recognition is used for everything from paying at restaurants to identifying those who jaywalk.

Kitesurfers at El Medano, Tenerife. Photos: Tim Pile

A rock formation in Teide National Park.

The approach to Mount Teide, a dormant volcano.

The winding road to Masca.

A British pub in Playa de las Americas.

San Sebastian, on the smaller island of La Gomera.

The village of Masca on Tenerife.

Sixty-four-year-old escaped from prison 10 years ago and fled to tropical Tenerife, but complained that the resort island wasn’t like it used to be


Sixty-four-year-old escaped from prison 10 years ago and fled to tropical Tenerife, but complained that the resort island wasn’t like it used to be.


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