Aged 63, Edgardo Greco worked in the evenings as a pizza maker in a pizzeria in Saint-Etienne. He called himself Paolo Dimitrio, the identity of a criminal from Puglia, according to the Italian agency AGI.
He was the subject of a European arrest warrant in 2014 from the public prosecutor’s office in Catanzaro (Calabria) after his life sentence for two murders committed in January 1991 and an attempted murder in July 1991.
The victims had been killed “with iron bars in a fish warehouse and their bodies disappeared and were never found”, explained a press release from the Italian carabinieri.
Classified as “dangerous” by Interpol
The fugitive, described as “dangerous” by Interpol, had escaped while in police custody.
He was part of the Perna-Pranno clan at the time, which was the most important in the city of Cosenza, where he lived.
“He is considered jointly responsible for the ambush of January 5, 1991 which cost the lives of brothers Stefano and Giuseppe B. who wanted greater autonomy and consideration in the midst of the clans of Cosenza”, explains a press release from the Italian carabinieri. .
The victims had been killed “with iron bars in a fish warehouse (…) and their bodies disappeared and were never found”, according to the same source.
The Italian Minister of the Interior welcomes this arrest
On Twitter, Matteo Piantedosi, Italian Minister of the Interior, commented on this arrest: “Great satisfaction for this important operation carried out also thanks to the important synergies developed within the framework of an international network of cooperation between police forces. Arrests of dangerous fugitives continue. »
The 60-year-old was arrested by the French police thanks to information from the Italian carabinieri, shared between the two partner countries thanks to the I-Can project (Interpol cooperation against the ‘Ndrangheta).
