He worked as Pizza chef in France...
Edgardo Greco, 63, is believed to be a member of the infamous 'Ndrangheta, a potent mafia group in Calabria, southern Italy. He was reportedly apprehended in Saint-Etienne, France, where, according to French prosecutors, he had operated an Italian restaurant under a false name, according to Interpol after being on a run for more than 16 years.
According to Interpol, he is wanted in Italy to carry out a life sentence for the killings of Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeoin 2006. Their bodies were never recovered; media reports claims Greco used acid to dissolve the corpses. Additionally, he is charged with trying to kill Emiliano Mosciaro "as part of a mafia war between the Pino Sena and Perna Pranno gangs that marked the early 1990s," according to the complaint.
According to Italian authorities, the Bartolomeo brothers were killed at a fish warehouse by beatings with iron bars. Greco had escaped from police custody shortly afterwards and did not resurface till 2014 - as Paolo Dimitrio. In those eight years he worked in several restaurants before setting up his own eatery - Caffe Rossini Ristorante.
Greco bought the Caffe Rossini Ristorante in Saint-Etienne in June 2021 and ran it there until November 2021, according to French investigators. So secure was he in his alias that Greco appeared in local TV and newspapers ads to market his restaurant's recipes, the BBC reported.
Additionally, Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the most infamous Cosa Nostra mafia bosses from Sicily, was apprehended by Italian police just over two weeks prior to his arrest. Matteo Messina Denaro had been on the run for 30 years.
The 60-year-old was detained after entering a medical facility in Palermo, the capital of Sicily, where he was receiving treatment.
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