The 63-year-old pizzeria chef Edgardo Greco was recently arrested by the police. It is said that he was a member of the Italian mafia organization "Ndrangheta" ('Ndrangheta) and a "dangerous fugitive" who had been on the run for 16 years.

(Associated Press)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Interpol recently announced that, with the cooperation of Italian and French authorities, the 63-year-old pizzeria chef Edgardo Greco was arrested in southeastern France. The Italian mafia organization "Ndrangheta" was not only involved in gang struggles in the 1990s, but was also sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of homicide. It took 16 years to escape before it was finally arrested.

According to comprehensive foreign media reports, Interpol said in a statement issued on the 2nd that Greco, who worked in a pizza restaurant in Saint-Etienne, France, was suspected by the police to belong to Calabria (Calabria) in southern Italy. One of the members of the "Ndrangheta", a large mafia organization in China, is also a "dangerous fugitive" wanted by the Italian government for many years, so he came to arrest him.

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Interpol stated that Greco was sentenced to life imprisonment for beating Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo brothers (Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo) of a rival family to death with an iron rod in a fishing warehouse in January 1991; according to Italian police, The whereabouts of the remains of the Bartolomeo brothers are unknown, and it is rumored that they may have been dissolved in acid.

He is also charged with the attempted murder of another Mafia member, Emiliano Mosciaro, in the early 1990s during a Mafia gang fight.

The report pointed out that although Greco was born in Italy, his family came from France, so he returned to his hometown to hide in 2014 after 8 years of fleeing, and went to the local Italy under the pseudonym "Paolo Dimitrio". The restaurant serves as the chef.

He also opened his own business in June 2021, running a "Caffe Rossini Ristorante" (Caffe Rossini Ristorante) that sells Italian dishes such as pasta, ravioli, and stewed rice. It was also reported by local media.