Rennes court hands over mafia member to Italian authorities

A court in western France on Friday approved the extradition of an Italian mafia member who arrested in September in Brittany where he was operating a cleaning company.

The appeals court in Rennes agreed to give Marion Miceli to Italian police.

The appeals court in Rennes said that Mario Miceli would be handed over to Italian authorities pending an appeal.

Miceli, 62, fled a six-year prison sentence and had been living under his own name in Arzon, a town perched on the Quiberon Bay, since 2018.

In January, a Milan appeals court convicted him on charges of association with criminals and extortion.