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Edgardo Greco was wanted for murdering two brothers and attempting to murder another man in 1991

By Paul Kirby

BBC News

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.

The 'Ndrangheta are now the most powerful mafia in Italy and their tentacles stretch across Europe and South America.

Greco, 63, was wanted for the murder of two brothers during a "mafia war" between two gangs in the early 1990s.