Italy nabs 2 most wanted Mafia bosses

The Italian anti-Mafia police nabbed two fugitive mobster bosses on Friday, after discovering them “living like animals” in a mountain hideout stocked with an arsenal of weapons.

Giuseppe Ferraro, 47, and Giuseppe Crea, 37, both high-ranking members of the powerful and immensely wealthy ‘Ndrangheta organised crime group, are both on Italy’s most dangerous fugitives list, the police told AFP. Ferraro, found guilty in absentia of a string of brutal murders and described as “extremely dangerous” by the police, had been on the run for 18 years. Crea, wanted for Mafia association and extortion, disappeared 10 years ago.

Ferraro’s clan is also believed to have been involved in the gunning down of rival boss Domenico Bonarrigo in a turf war. Bonarrigo’s men took their revenge by feeding the suspected gunman, Ferraro ally Francesco Raccosta, alive to pigs in 2013. “They were living in a concrete bunker hidden by dense bushes and trees,” said prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho, describing the hideout in the mountains near the town of Maropati in the Reggio Calabria region of southern Italy.

Maropati was founded in the 10th century after being used as a hideout by people fleeing Saracen pirates on the coast.