After a two-year investigation, Gioacchino Gammino, 61, was tracked down in Galapagar, Spain, the place he lived beneath a pretend title. The city is near the capital Madrid.
A Google Maps avenue view image portraying a person who seemed like him in entrance of a fruit store was key in triggering a deeper investigation.
“The photogram helped us to substantiate the investigation we have been growing in conventional methods,” Nicola Altiero, deputy director of the Italian anti-mafia police unit (DIA), mentioned.
Gammino, a member of a Sicilian mafia group dubbed Stidda, had escaped Rome’s Rebibbia jail in 2002 and in 2003 had been sentenced to life imprisonment for a homicide dedicated a number of years earlier.
Altiero mentioned Gammino is at present beneath custody in Spain and so they hope to convey him again to Italy by the tip of February. Reuters was unable to find a consultant of Gammino to remark.