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Italy arrests fugitive boss of ‘most violent’ mafia on French island Corsica
- Marco Raduano, described as ‘dangerous’ on Europol’s list of Europe’s most wanted criminals, escaped from a heavily secured prison last year
- His close aide and another fugitive, Gianluigi Troiano, has also been picked up near Granada in southern Spain
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A boss from one of Italy’s most violent mafias who escaped from a maximum-security prison last year has been captured in France, authorities in both countries said on Friday.
Marco Raduano, described as “dangerous” on Europol’s list of Europe’s most wanted criminals, was detained on the French island of Corsica.
He had escaped from a heavily secured prison in Nuoro, Sardinia, in February last year, using bedsheets to scale down the walls.
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Authorities in Italy also announced on Friday the detention of his close aide, Gianluigi Troiano, another fugitive who had been picked up near Granada in southern Spain.
“The carabinieri’s (police’s) capture abroad of two dangerous fugitives, Marco Raduano and his right-hand man Gianluigi Troiano, represents another major blow to organised crime,” Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said.
Raduano, 40, was jailed for being the boss of the rural Gargano clan operating within a young and little-known organised crime syndicate in Foggia, in the southern Italian region of Puglia, known as Fourth Mafia.
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