His father was also a contract killer, whose nickname Scarpa - ‘shoe’ - gave rise to Giuseppe’s nom de guerre. In 1983, also in Palermo, he planted and detonated the car bomb that killed magistrate Rocco Chinnici, his two carabinieri escorts and the porter of the building where Chinnici lived.Īs a young man, Greco was academically bright, excelling in the study of Latin and Greek, but his family background meant that his life in crime was effectively preordained. Victim among the scores of murders he committed
General Carlo Alberto dalla was Greco's most high-profile
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Greco, in fact, was convicted at the so-called Maxi Trial in the late 1980s of the murder of General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, Italy’s counter-terrorism chief, who was shot to death in his car in Palermo in 1982 after being sent to Sicily with a brief to end the conflict. Most of Greco’s victims were fellow criminals, the majority of them killed during the Second Mafia War, which began in 1978 and intensified between 19 with more than 1,000 homicides, as rival clans fought each other and against the state, with judges, prosecutors and politicians prominent in the fight against organised crime themselves becoming targets. The nephew of Michele Greco, who lived on an estate just outside Ciaculli and rose to be head of the Sicilian Mafia Commission - a body set up to settle disputes between rival clans - Pino Greco is generally accepted to have been responsible for 80 deaths, although some students of Cosa Nostra history believe he could have committed more than 300 killings. More often known as ‘Pino’, or by his nickname Scarpuzzedda - meaning ‘little shoe’ - Greco is considered one of the most prolific killers in the history of organised crime. The notorious Mafia hitman Giuseppe Greco, who was convicted posthumously on 58 counts of murder but whose victims possibly ran into hundreds, was born on this day in 1952 in Ciaculli, a town on the outskirts of Palermo in Sicily. In recent years, 'ndrangheta mobsters have been arrested around Europe and even in Brazil.Notorious hitman thought to have committed at least 80 murders The 'ndrangheta, based in the `toe' of the Italian peninsula, is one of the world's most powerful cocaine traffickers and is seen as the largest threat among organized crime syndicates. "No matter how hard fugitives try to slip into a quiet life abroad, they cannot evade justice forever," Interpol chief Jurgen Stock was quoted as saying in the statement. Investigations by Italian prosecutors in Catanzaro and police in Cosenza - both in southern Italy - led to the arrest, the Interpol statement said. Interpol, the international police organization based in Lyon, France, said the killings were "part of a `mafia war'.
Italian authorities said the two people killed in 2006 were brothers who were beaten to death with a metal bar in a fish shop in Calabria.
He was wanted for two murders in 2006 and accused of attempted murder in another case. Italy's ANSA news agency reported that the 63-year-old had been working for the past three years as a pizza-maker in Saint Etienne, where he had lived since 2014.Īn Interpol statement said French police, with help from Italian colleagues, arrested Edgardo Greco in Saint-Etienne.
Police in southeastern France have arrested a convicted murderer linked to Italy's most powerful organized crime group, the 'ndrangheta, who was on the run for 16 years, Interpol and Italian police said on Thursday.
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