Pasquale Claudio Locatelli, a reputed boss of the Camorra who escaped from a French prison in 1989 was arrested Saturday by Spanish police at the Madrid airport, Locatelli, 58, wanted in France and Italy, is accused of being the intermediary between Colombian cocaine producers and European drug trafficking organizations, and of serving as a contact with North African hashish traffickers.
Locatelli was arrested when he went to the airport to meet his son, who had taken a flight to Madrid from Italy. The arrest took place after Italian and Spanish agents discovered that his son was going to travel from Italy to Spain, where he had planned to stay a few hours, so that authorization for cross-border surveillance was requested, allowing two members of the Neapolitan Guardia di Finanza police to travel on the same flight.
At the time of his arrest the suspected drug trafficker was carrying forged documents,a passport and a driver’s license from Slovenia and five mobile phones.
Locatelli escaped in September 1989 while serving a sentence at Grasse jail in southeastern France with the complicity of five individuals from the Clavary medical center, where he had been taken for medical treatment.
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
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