Edgardo Greco, 63, was arrested on the night of Wednesday to Thursday by French and Italian investigators. It was particularly sought after for a particularly bloody double homicide.
by Antoine Albertini and Thomas Saintourens
The Stéphanois customers of his pizzeria nicknamed him “Rocco” but he presented himself under the name of Paolo Dimitrio. In reality, this discreet pizzaiolo that posed in July 2021 in the progress (edition of Saint-Etienne), praising his “Italian cuisine developed only with fresh and homemade”, was called Edgardo Greco. Since 2006, for Italian justice, he was one of these “super fugitives” sought for their belonging to a mafia criminal organization – the formidable ‘Calabraise ndrangheta, in his case.
At 1:45 a.m., on the night of Wednesday 1 in Thursday, February 2, barely his cooled oven, this 63 -year -old calabrais was arrested by local judicial police, investigators from The Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO) and Carabiniers from Cosenza, in southern Italy. The operation, organized in the greatest secrecy, was carried out as part of the I-CAN project, for the fight against the ‘Ndrangheta launched in early 2020. And here is the cook caught up in its criminal past: that of a killer to killer The balance of one of the most powerful clans of the ‘Ndrangheta, Les Perna-Pranno.
Before rebuilding his life behind the stoves of the pizzerias of his refuge city, Greco had been able to climb the levels of the mafia hierarchy, thanks to his coups de force and his talents as a banks and vans of transfer of funds . His assault by members of the Pino-Sena clan made him choose his camp. He makes allegiance to their enemies, the Perna-Pranno, at the time when the “mafia war” the northern calaver.
Greco wins his first nickname, that of “prisons killer”, from the 1980s. His fact of a weapon: a knife attack in the interior courtyard targeting the Franco Pino boss, at the time of the walk. If this was missing his target, he conquered the prestige of a risk-all. It is a particularly bloody double assassination which will earn him his reputation as “Killer” without mood, but also the beginning of his hunt by the Departmental Directorate Antimafia (DDA) of the justice of Catanzaro, the “capital” of the North Calabria.
On January 5, 1991, he attracted two brothers to the hints of autonomy, Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo, in a fishmonger in Cosenza. Greeco, as well as enraged, strikes them with iron bar. His work is not over. Three years later, anxious not to leave any trace of his victims, the conscientious assassin applies to digging their bodies to dissolve them in acid.
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