This is how Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested 1:43
(CNN) --
A mob boss who has been on the run since 2006 was captured in France Thursday while working as a pizza maker.
Edgardo Greco, 63, was arrested while posing as a pizza chef in Saint-Etienne, France, anti-mafia police confirmed Thursday.
The capture of mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro raises questions about why he was free for so long
Edgardo Greco, 63, was part of the 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian mafia).
(Credit: Carabinieri Cosenza)
Greco was part of the 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian mafia) and was convicted in absentia of the 1990s murder of two brothers from a rival clan who were presumed dissolved in acid, according to witnesses.
Anti-mafia police say he was convicted of the murder of the brothers Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo.
Greco had adopted a new identity, Paolo Dimitrio, in France despite being on Italy's most wanted list for 16 years.
He even appeared in a local French newspaper as an "authentic Italian pizza maker," according to Italian press reports.
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He was arrested after Interpol issued an arrest warrant and will likely be extradited to Italy.
