ROME — A village odd-job man gunned down clients who failed to pay him, killing at least five in the small Sicilian community, a prosecutor said Monday following the dawn arrest of 69-year-old Giuseppe Raeli.
Ugo Rossi, chief prosecutor for the city of Syracuse, said Raeli was accused of five murders and four attempted murders, though press reports said he was suspected of eight killings over a seven-year period.
"Giuseppe Raeli was ready to kill for only a few hundred euros, even 200," Rossi told local media. "He took the law into his own hands as soon as someone owed him money and didn't pay him for work he had done."
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Rossi said a home-made safe containing $26,000 dollars and a loaded pistol were found in a search of the home of the man nicknamed "the wolf" by his neighbours because of his taciturn nature.
Describing him as "very miserly" but a hard worker, the prosecutor said Raeli, married with two children, did odd jobs for people, clearing land with a mechanical digger or delivering wood.
A "hard worker" in Sicily? The mind boggles.
[Vancouver Sun]
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