Former Brenta crime boss Felice
Maniero has been fitted with an anti-stalking electronic
bracelet and ordered not to approach his alleged victim, a woman
who recently reported him to the authorities saying he had
slapped and punched her and a family member, Venice daily Il
Gazzettino reported on Thursday.
Maniero, who led a mafia-style gang that ran rackets in the
Brenta area of Veneto in the 70s and 80s which he allowed police
to dismantle after confessing his crimes, is now living under a
new identity and in a secret place.
In 2023, Maniero, 70, finished serving a four-year prison term
for abusing his former partner Marta Bisello.
Maniero was first jailed in 1995 for bank robbery, murder,
assault, assault of an officer, and grand theft auto.
During his time in jail he turned State's evidence against other
gangsters.
He was released in 2010 but rearrested on charges of mistreating
his partner in Brescia in October 2019.
Maniero was once one of Italy's most feared crime bosses,
outside traditional southern mafias including Calabria's
'Ndrangheta, Sicily's Cosa Nostra, Campania's Camorra and
Puglia's Sacra Corona Unita.
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