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16 years fugitive, Italian mafia suspect caught while working as a pizza chef. Photo/The Guardian
PARIS – A suspected murderer mafia Italy which became fugitive since 2006 has been caught in French . He’s been hiding as a pizza chef for at least the last three years.
Edgardo Greco (63) was arrested on Thursday in the French town of Saint-Etienne, where he runs an Italian restaurant under an assumed name. Greco was allegedly a member of the notorious ‘Ndrangheta group, a powerful mafia organization in Calabria, southern Italy.
Described as a “dangerous fugitive”, Greco is wanted in Italy to serve a life sentence for the murders of Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo, Interpol said in a statement.
He was also accused there of the attempted murder of Emiliano Mosciaro as part of the mafia wars between the Pino Sena and Perna Pranno gangs that marked the early 1990s.
Italian police say the Bartolomeo brothers were beaten to death with metal bars in a fish shed in January 1991. Their bodies were never found and are believed to have dissolved in acid.
French prosecutors say in Saint-Etienne in June 2021, Greco became the owner of an Italian restaurant called Caffe Rossini Ristorante, which will operate until November 2021.
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According to documents seen by Agence France-Presse, he uses the name Paolo Dimitrio and also works at another Italian restaurant in the city.
A Facebook account still open for Caffe Rossini Ristorante, which appears to have closed, suggests the local press is covering its 2021 opening.
“Paolo Dimitrio opens his dream restaurant,” read the headline of an article in the local newspaper Le Progres.
