A convicted murderer with ties to the notorious 'ndrangheta organized criminal group in Italy was apprehended in France after 16 years on the run.
murderer with ties to the notorious 'ndrangheta organized criminal group in Italy was apprehended in France after 16 years on the run.
Edgardo Greco, 63, had spent the previous three years working as a pizza maker in Saint Etienne, where he had lived since 2014.
In his absence, he was convicted of the murders of two brothers in a fish shop in Calabria in 2006, as well as the attempted murder of another man.
Interpol said the killings were 'part of a "mafia war" that marked the early 1990s' in Italy.
His arrest reportedly came after he made the local newspaper for his pizza-making skills under his fake name in 2019.
The alias was said to be taken from an infamous gangster from Puglia, which caught the eye of Italian anti-mafia cops.
Italian carabinieri walk in a corridor at the Interpol headquarters in Lyon, central France (Picture: AP)
Interpol chief Jurgen Stock said: 'No matter how hard fugitives try to slip into a quiet life abroad, they cannot evade justice forever.'
The 'ndrangheta, based in the 'toe' of the Italian peninsula, is one of the world's most powerful cocaine traffickers and is seen as the largest threat among organized crime syndicates.
In recent years, 'ndrangheta mobsters have been arrested around Europe and even in Brazil.
Greco's arrest comes just days after Italy's top fugitive mafia boss was apprehended after evading justice for 30 years.
Matteo Messina Denaro was convicted of dozens of murders, including helping to mastermind, along with other Cosa Nostra bosses, a pair of 1992 bombings that killed top anti-Mafia prosecutors.
His reign of terror led the Italian state to stiffen its crackdown on the Sicilian crime syndicate.
He is anticipated to serve numerous life terms in a maximum security facility under the especially harsh conditions set aside for top organized crime commanders.
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