An Italian mobster has been arrested at a Portuguese COVID clinic after two years on the run.
Francesco Pelle had been convicted of ordering the revenge killing of another mobster’s wife, Maria Strangio, at her home in Calabria on Christmas Day 2006.
But he vanished from Milan in 2019 just before Italy’s Supreme Court upheld his conviction and life sentence.
Italian interior minister Luciana Lamorgese described Pelle as one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives, adding that paramilitary police and anti-Mafia prosecutors had been on his…
