Most wanted cocaine gang mobsters found ‘living like animals’ in mountain bunker

Two fugitive mobster bosses were arrested on Friday after being found “living like animals” in a mountain hideout with an arsenal of weapons. Giuseppe Ferraro and Giuseppe Crea, both high-ranking members of the powerful 'Ndrangheta organised crime group, were living in a concrete bunker hidden by dense bushes and trees near the town of Maropati in southern Italy. In their bunker, police found a submachine gun as well as a collection of rifles and pistols hung on the wall. Photographs released by the police showed one of the men in a black jumper and brown fleece in the moment of his arrest, with boxes of cherry tomatoes and a flask visible next to the kitchen sink behind him.

They were living like animals, a cold life cut off from society

Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho

Both Ferraro, 47, and 37-year-old Crea were on Italy’s most dangerous fugitives list. Ferraro, found guilty in absentia of a string of murders, had been on the run for 18 years. Crea, wanted for mafia association and extortion, disappeared 10 years ago. Ferraro is believed to have been involved in the gunning down of rival boss Domenico Bonarrigo in a clan war. Bonarrigo’s men got revenge by feeding the suspected gunman, Ferraro ally Francesco Raccosta, alive to pigs in 2013. The 'Ndrangheta is credited with controlling much of the world’s cocaine trade and police describe the group as the most active, richest and most powerful syndicate in Europe.

Today is another great day for the country, because today justice once again has won, and done so impressively

Italy’s justice minister Angelino Alfano

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