Key legal question
Whether half-freedom should be granted despite the authorities' finding of flight risk.
Extracted holding
Half-freedom could lawfully be refused because concrete indications showed that the appellant might evade execution of the sentence.
Extracted reasoning
The appellant had moved his center of life to Italy, acquired Italian citizenship, ran a business in Sardinia, and an email showed he did not want to comply with a court summons; these circumstances supported a flight risk under Art. 37 Ziff. 3 Abs. 2 StGB.