The leader of an Italian mafia group, Marco Raduano, presented as “dangerous” on the website of the most wanted people in the European Union, was arrested Thursday in Haute-Corse (France), the French authorities announced this Friday and Italian.
Marco Raduano, 40, is the leader of “Società Foggiana”, a mafia group active in the Italian province of Foggia, in Puglia, in the south of the country.
His right-hand man, Gianluigi Troiana, was simultaneously arrested in Otura, near Granada, in southern Spain, according to a carabinieri press release.
Targeted by a European arrest warrant
The Sardinian Carabinieri had requested the execution of a European arrest warrant.
This mafia leader was sentenced to 24 years in prison for participation in a criminal organization and illicit drug trafficking.
He escaped a year ago from Nuoro prison, in Sardinia.
The mafia boss was detained "in the high security wing of the prison", from which he managed to escape thanks to "tied sheets", reports the Italian news site Rainews.fr.
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Italian intelligence had previously reported its presence in Upper Corsica, in the Luciana sector.
Marco Raduano was arrested Thursday evening in Aleria in possession of false papers.