{"id":3765,"date":"2026-04-04T21:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/3765\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:13:06","slug":"meloni-hails-arrest-of-top-crime-family-suspect-after-raid-at-an-italian-resort-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/3765\/","title":{"rendered":"Meloni hails arrest of top crime family suspect after raid at an Italian resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ROME, Italy (AP) \u2014 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni congratulated the police late Saturday for the arrest of an alleged crime boss and one of Italy&#8217;s most wanted fugitives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities announced the arrest of Roberto Mazzarella, 48, following a raid Friday on a villa on the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy after allegedly using false documents to rent the luxury coastal property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meloni, who is on a tour of Gulf states, described Mazzarella\u2019s arrest as an \u201can important blow against the Camorra,\u201d referring to the notorious criminal organization that originated in Naples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis sends a clear message that the state will not back down\u201d Meloni said in an online post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mazzarella is wanted in connection with a 2000 fatal shooting at a delicatessen in central Naples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME, Italy (AP) \u2014 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni congratulated the police late Saturday for the arrest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[325,1088,5,2903,2840,27,2904],"class_list":{"0":"post-3765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-giorgia-meloni","9":"tag-italian-prime-minister","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-most-wanted-fugitives","12":"tag-roberto-mazzarella","13":"tag-rome","14":"tag-southern-italy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}