How Google Maps helped Italian police catch high mafia from Spain

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Google Maps assist Italian police to catch high mafia on run for 20 yrs from Spain

Italian police hunt high mafia on run for 20 yrs from Spain, due to Google Maps

Italian police has caught a high mafia fugitive who had been on the run for practically 20 years due to the assistance of the Google Maps app, an investigator informed Reuters on Wednesday.

After a two-year investigation, Gioacchino Gammino, 61, was tracked down in Galapagar, Spain, the place he lived underneath a pretend identify. The city is near the capital Madrid.

A Google Maps avenue view image portraying a person who seemed like him in entrance of a fruit store 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), stated.

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 homicide dedicated a number of years earlier.

Altiero stated Gammino is at present underneath custody in Spain they usually hope to convey him again to Italy by the top of February. Reuters was unable to find a consultant of Gammino to remark.

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