The Italian mob boss Marco Di Lauro is after 14 years on the run from police has been arrested in Naples.
According to the ministry of the interior in Rome, he was one of Italy’s four most wanted criminals.
Saturday beat the police to use against a modest apartment in the southern Italian city, where the 38-year-old Di Lauro lived with his wife.
Surrounded by two cats, he was in the process of eating a portion of pasta, when the police showed up.
Marco Di Lauro is according to media in Italy, the second most dangerous person in the country, after the sicilian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro, but the arrest calm.
He expressed concern, however, for his two cats, the fate of the ushers. Marco Di Lauro was allowed to change clothes and freshen up, before he was led away.
the Police found no weapons in the apartment and only a modest amount of money.
About 150 officers participated in the action, which is being praised to the skies by the leading politicians and ordinary citizens.
When he in a politivogn, which was monitored from the air by a politihelikopter, arrived to the police station in Naples, had about 100 people gathered in front of the building and shouted, “well done, well done”.
Prime minister Giuseppe Conte thanked the in a tweet that the police have apprehended “superflygtningen”, while the minister of the interior Matteo Salvini, congratulated the police with a “very important operation”.
the police chief in Naples, Antonio De Iesu declared at a news conference that “unusual activity” led police to the suspect, previously convicted for organised crime.
The high-profile arrest happened allegedly on the basis of a killing earlier on Saturday of a woman who was married to a man who is put in connection with the Marco Di Lauro.
Police chief Antonio De Iesu will neither confirm or deny whether the killing and the arrest has nothing to do with each other.
Marco Di Lauro, who is the fourth son of a former head of the mafiaorganisationen Camorra, escaped in 2004, a major police operation, known as “håndjernenes night”, directed against the mafia.
Since then he has been on the run and from 2006, also wanted internationally.
An informant said in 2010 to the police that Marco Di Lauro had committed at least four killings, writes the news agency AP.
He originally had nine brothers and a sister. All of the brothers are now either dead or sitting in prison, informs the Italian media.
