(ANSA) - COSENZA, FEBRUARY 02 - The carabinieri arrested 63-year-old Edgardo Greco in Sant'Etienne, France, a fugitive since 2006 for a double murder by the 'Ndrangheta which took place in Cosenza in 1991 for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
A European arrest warrant issued by the Attorney General of Catanzaro was pending against Greco.
Greco was identified and arrested by the soldiers of the Cosenza Operations Department as part of an investigative activity coordinated by the Catanzaro District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
Greco had been a pizza chef for at least three years in a restaurant in Sant'Etienne, where he had settled since 2014. The double homicide for which Greco was wanted is that of the brothers Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo, killed in Cosenza on 5 January 1991.
The Bartolomeo brothers were massacred with a bar in a fish market.
Their bodies, which were disappeared at the time, have never been found.
Greco is also accused of the attempted murder of Emiliano Mosciaro, which also took place in Cosenza on 21 July 1991. Both the double homicide and the attempted murder contested against Greco are part of the "mafia war" that broke out in the early 1990s in Cosenza between the gangs "Pino -Sena" and "Perna-Pranno".
A prison order issued by the Attorney General of Catanzaro in 2014 was also pending against Greco in relation to the life sentence imposed on him for the murder of the Bartolomeo brothers.
The carabinieri who arrested Edgardo Greco worked, in the final phase of the operation, together with the personnel of the Italian and French units to be captured and the I-Can Unit of the Scip of the Ministry of the Interior.
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