Google Maps helps Italian police capture mafia fugitive
Italian police has caught a top mafia
fugitive who had been on the run for nearly 20 years thanks to the help of the
Google Maps app, an investigator told Reuters on Wednesday.
After a two-year investigation, Gioacchino
Gammino, 61, was tracked down in Galapagar, Spain, where he lived under a fake
name. The town is close to the capital Madrid.
A Google Maps street view picture portraying
a man who looked like him in front of a fruit shop was key in triggering a
deeper investigation.
"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.
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 murder committed several years earlier.
Altiero said Gammino is currently under
custody in Spain and they hope to bring him back to Italy by the end of
February. Reuters was unable to locate a representative of Gammino to comment.
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