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Italian Fugitive Edgardo Greco Tracked Down as Pizza Maker After 16 Years
BBC ^ | 2/3 | Paul Kirby

Posted on 02/02/2023 1:12:04 PM PST by nickcarraway

A convicted Italian mafia killer on the run since 2006 has been caught in France, having hidden in plain sight as a pizza chef for at least three years.

Edgardo Greco's capture in Saint-Étienne is the second high-profile mafia arrest by Italian authorities in a matter of weeks.

Matteo Messina Denaro had been on the run for 30 years, when he was detained on a visit to a clinic in Sicily.

Both men were wanted for carrying out grisly murders in the 1990s.

While Messina Denaro was the "boss of bosses" for Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra, Greco was part of the 'Ndrangheta organised crime mob who originate from the Calabria region in Italy's deep south.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: italy; mafia; pizza
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Do you think he might be free if he picked a different type o cuisine - like gyros or something?>
1 posted on 02/02/2023 1:12:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Should have worked at a chinese buffet.


2 posted on 02/02/2023 1:16:28 PM PST by FreshPrince
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“Find Fabrizzio. Whoever finds Fabrizzio will have the finest pastures in Sicily.”

— Godfather, more or less


3 posted on 02/02/2023 1:17:28 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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Cinnabon was already taken. In any event, just as well the law got to him, after what he did to Apollonia.


4 posted on 02/02/2023 1:18:19 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: FreshPrince

shouda immigrated to NYC.

he could be rockin out in a 5 star hotel with all the bene’s of coming to america


5 posted on 02/02/2023 1:19:10 PM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
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But how was the pizza?


6 posted on 02/02/2023 1:27:41 PM PST by Theoria
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That wasn’t tomato sauce.


7 posted on 02/02/2023 1:31:39 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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"Cinnabon was already taken."

I see what you did there.


8 posted on 02/02/2023 1:32:49 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

Probably pissed off a girlfriend who dropped a dime on him.


9 posted on 02/02/2023 1:33:23 PM PST by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power )
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Cliches are around for a reason. :)
10 posted on 02/02/2023 1:35:16 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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Cinnabon was already taken.

Ha! I was just thinking about a clever way to bring in the plot of Better Call Saul!

11 posted on 02/02/2023 1:50:47 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Theoria

Now the restaurant will have to hire back that Somalian.


12 posted on 02/02/2023 1:51:43 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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Maybe he was wanted in Italy for crimes against pizza - like putting pineapple on it


13 posted on 02/02/2023 1:55:49 PM PST by PGR88 (, )
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Well, Somalia was part of Italy.


14 posted on 02/02/2023 2:17:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Interesting, I had no idea. Interesting reading


15 posted on 02/02/2023 2:26:06 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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There’s a little hole-in-the-wall pizza shop in a strip mall near here. I’ve been in there once. My BIL and sister ordered a pizza from there when they were here. Other than that I don’t know a single (or married) person who has ordered from there in the 11 years I’ve lived here.

But he stays open. Only thing I can think of is mafia informant relocation deal.


16 posted on 02/02/2023 2:51:01 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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Probably pissed off a girlfriend who dropped a dime on him.

Bingo

17 posted on 02/02/2023 3:12:53 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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There’s a little hole-in-the-wall pizza shop in a strip mall near here. I’ve been in there once. My BIL and sister ordered a pizza from there when they were here. Other than that I don’t know a single (or married) person who has ordered from there in the 11 years I’ve lived here.

But he stays open. Only thing I can think of is mafia informant relocation deal.

Or money laundering. He's not busy because he doesn't need to be.

18 posted on 02/02/2023 3:14:15 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: nickcarraway
El Greco painting

Ed Greco painting


19 posted on 02/02/2023 3:38:54 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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Tight sphincters for the Karens that threatened bad reviews after complaining about their pizzas....when you realize life is so precious!

His stink eye is like my mother’s....southern Italian!


20 posted on 02/02/2023 3:46:08 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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