The arrest of 63-year-old Edgardo Greco is the second major arrest of a person belonging to the Italian mafia in a few weeks after the arrest of the “mastermind” Matteo Messina Denaro
Another convicted Italian mafia hitman on the run since 2006 has finally been arrested in France while working as a chef in an Italian restaurant for at least three years while changing his identity.
The arrest of 63-year-old Edgardo Greco is the second major arrest of a person belonging to the Italian mafia in a few weeks after the arrest of “mastermind” Matteo Messina Denaro who was wanted for around 30 years, according to the BBC.
Both men were wanted for murders committed in the 1990s.
Greco was a member of the criminal organization “Dragetta» from the region of Calabria, in southern Italy. The ” Dragetta» is currently considered the most powerful mafia organization in Italy and its tentacles are spread across Europe and South America.
Greco, 63, was wanted for the murder of two brothers during a “mafia war” between two gangs in the early 1990s. In 2006, a preliminary arrest warrant was issued for Greco, who went on the run. Eight years later, he settled in the French city of Saint-Étienne, southwest of Lyon, where he got a job as a chef in an Italian restaurant. Greco changed his identity and was now known as Paolo Dimitrio.
In Italy he has been sentenced to life imprisonment while at the same time a European arrest warrant had been issued.
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