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7 Post author: christopherj 31 January 2014 04:12AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2014 09:21:17PM *  0 points [-]

"Almost every". I did not say Florence was the only exception.

Milan and Turin are well within 70km of Switzerland and France, though, so I don't know why you mention them.

This is why I don't comment as much on LW as I used to.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2014 08:56:48AM 1 point [-]

I was just nit-picking, sorry.

In any event, counting coasts as borders is not something Italians would usually do. I'd think it's much easier to escape a country undetected (at least in the Schengen area) from a land border than from the coast. I'd say that P(x is trying to flee Italy|x is in Venzone) >> P(x is trying to flee Italy|x is in Rome), or Naples, or Milan, or indeed most (by population) of Italy.

Comment author: gwern 01 February 2014 05:51:54PM 1 point [-]

I'm curious, would it even matter if he had escaped to Austria? I was under the impression that the EU had fairly tightly integrated law enforcement & extradition within the Schengen area precisely because it's so easy to move around, and that being in Austria would be a very minimal obstacle for the Italian police.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2014 06:12:29PM 0 points [-]

Good point.