Wheelchair bound
'Ndrangheta boss Francesco Pelle aka 'Pakistan Fatty' went on
the lam after the supreme Court of Cassation found him guilty of
ordering a 2006 Christmas Eve hit that killed the wife of a
rival boss and set off a feud that culminated in the 2007
Duisburg Massacre that killed six people in the German city.
Maria Strangio, wife of clan chief Giovanni Luca Nirta, was
killed in the Sicilian town of San Luca, starting the San Luca
Feud between the Pelle-Vottari clan on one side and the
Nirta-Strangio clan on the other.
The mid-August Duisburg Massacre gained world headlines for
the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta.
Francesco Pelle has been in a wheelchair since he was injured
in an ambush in Calabria in July 2006.
Arrested in 2008 after a year as a fugitive, he was under
orders to sign in with police in Milan, but made himself scarce
two weeks ago, police said Friday.
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