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Bruno Carbone, 45, was arrested on Tuesday November 15 at Rome airport where he had just landed. But he would initially have been expelled from Syria.
By Guillaume Perrier
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VSHow did a leader of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, end up in the Syrian jihadist sanctuary of Idlib? Bruno Carbone, 45, was arrested on Tuesday November 15 at Rome airport where he had just landed. But he would have been expelled from Syria, via Turkey, at the end of a run strewn with mysteries which highlights the tortuous routes taken by traffickers in a hyperglobalized narcotics market.
On the run since 2003, considered one of the most wanted bandits by Interpol, Carbone is facing a 20-year prison sentence for drug trafficking in Italy. It would have made it possible to bring large quantities of cocaine into the country, via Spain, for the benefit of the mafia clan of “Cappello-Carateddi”. Rome considers him as the right arm…
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