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| Italian police have arrested a top mafia boss who escaped from a hospital in 2011, finding him in a hideout built between the bathroom and his son’s bedroom at his home. | |
| Antonio Pelle was on the interior ministry’s list of most dangerous mafia fugitives. He was serving a 20-year prison sentence for mafia association and arms and drug trafficking when he slipped away from hospital in the town of Locri, in the southern region of Reggio Calabria. | Antonio Pelle was on the interior ministry’s list of most dangerous mafia fugitives. He was serving a 20-year prison sentence for mafia association and arms and drug trafficking when he slipped away from hospital in the town of Locri, in the southern region of Reggio Calabria. |
| Pelle is considered the head of the Pelle-Vottari clan, which is active in the Calabrian town of San Luca. It has been fighting the Nirta-Strangio clan, which drew international attention to Calabria’s ’Ndrangheta mob in 2007 when one of its feuds left six dead in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany. | Pelle is considered the head of the Pelle-Vottari clan, which is active in the Calabrian town of San Luca. It has been fighting the Nirta-Strangio clan, which drew international attention to Calabria’s ’Ndrangheta mob in 2007 when one of its feuds left six dead in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany. |