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Mafia suspect arrested in Italy on return from Malta

cde.news desk 30 September 2019, 09:23 · 1 min read

epa06925107 Italian police officers carry out checks in the Vasto district on the day after the wounding of a Senegalese street vendor, in Naples, southern Italy, 03 August 2018. A 22 year-old Senegalese street vendor by the name of Cisse' Elhadji Diebel, who lives in Italy with a residence permit, was wounded in the leg by two strangers with a gunshot. The young man was in the company of two friends in the street when two people on a scooter fired some gunshots. EPA-EFE/CESARE ABBATE

Italian police arrested 48-year-old Simone Gaetano on his return to Italy from Malta.

Gaetano was wanted in Italy for his ties to the Sicilian mafia known as Cosa Nostra particularly to the trafficking of drugs and blackmail.

Gaetano was arrested as he disembarked from the ferry boat in Pozzallo.

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