as a criminal on the run,
it takes just one view on Google maps to be caught! Gioacchino
Gammino, a convicted murderer listed among Italy’s most wanted gangsters, had
been on the run for nearly 20 years when he was arrested in Galapagar, a town
near Madrid, last month. He had escaped Rome’s Rebibbia jail in 2002 and in
2003 he had been sentenced to life in prison for a murder committed years
earlier. A European arrest warrant was issued in 2014, and authorities had
managed to track Gammino to Spain, but it was a Google Maps screenshot of two
men chatting outside a fruit and vegetable shop that helped police confirm his
exact location and make the arrest,
“The
photogram helped us to confirm the investigation we were developing in
traditional ways,” Nicola Altiero, deputy director of the Italian anti-mafia
police unit (DIA), said, prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi confirmed that “it’s not
as if we spend our days wading through Google Maps to find fugitives”, when
Gammino was arrested on December 17, the first thing he asked the police was
“How did you find me? I haven’t even called my family for 10 years!”. He had
changed his name and was working as a chef at a local restaurant called La
Cocina de Manu, where he cooked Italian food,
after
spotting Gioacchino Gammino on Gooogle Maps, prosecutors sought to confirm his
identity and managed to do just that by checking the Facebook page of La Cocina
de Man, Gammino, who was posing as the chef, was recognized by a scar on the
left side of his chin, Gioacchino Gammino was wanted for murder and several
other mafia-related crimes, He belonged to a mafia clan in Agrigento, Sicily,
and was originally arrested and convicted in 1998. Four years later, he managed
to escape Rebibbia prison in Rome, where he was serving a life sentence, taking
advantage of the commotion caused by a film being shot there, note to wanted criminals, if you see a Google camera car coming down the street you are in, run!
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