Edgardo Greco is a convicted murderer linked to Italy’s strongest arranged crime team, the ‘ndrangheta (Image: AP)

A convicted murderer with hyperlinks to Italy’s powerful ’ndrangheta organised crime workforce has been arrested in France after 16 years on the run.

Suspected mob hitman Edgardo Greco, SIXTY THREE, had spent the ultimate three years running as a pizza-maker in Saint Etienne, where he had lived when you consider that 2014.

He used to be convicted in his absence of the murders of 2 brothers who have been overwhelmed to dying with a metal bar in a fish save in Calabria in 2006 to boot because the attempted murder of some other guy.

Interpol mentioned the killings had been ‘part of a “mafia war” that marked the early nineties’ in Italy.

His arrest reportedly got here after he made the local newspaper for his pizza-making skills underneath his fake name in 2019.

The alias used to be mentioned to be taken from an infamous gangster from Puglia, which caught the attention of Italian anti-mafia cops.