After 16 years on the run, a mafia boss finds work as pizza boss

• Edgardo Greco was captured in Saint-Etienne, France.
• Edgardo Greco was working as a pizzaiolo – or pizza chef.
• He frequently posted on social media under a fictitious name.

Rome: Anti-Mafia police in Italy have apprehended another fugitive gangster, just two weeks after the arrest of Sicilian Cosa Nostra supremo Matteo Messina Denaro in a health facility in Palermo, Sicily, on January 16.

This time, Edgardo Greco, 63, was captured in Saint-Etienne, France, where he was working as a pizzaiolo – or pizza chef – at the Caffe Rossini Italian restaurant under the alias Paolo Dimitrio.

Greco was convicted in absentia in 1991 for the double homicide of brothers Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo, whom he is accused of killing with iron rods before dissolving their bodies in acid, according to court documents. Since his conviction, he had eluded Italian authorities.

Greco was dubbed a “dangerous fugitive” by Nicola Gratteri, the anti-Mafia prosecutor who led the investigation as head of the Catanzaro Public Prosecutor’s Office in Calabria. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of many prison officials, earning him the moniker “prison killer.”

Gratteri began pursuing Greco when he was mentioned in an article in the French publication Le Progres, which the restaurant shared on its own Facebook page.

Calabria police also stated that he frequently posted on social media under a fictitious name. When I called the restaurant on Friday, the phone line was disconnected.

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