Naples, Italy - Italian police arrested Thursday the suspected gunman whose shooting of an alleged mobster in Naples was controversially distributed on video last month, news reports said. The 27 year-old man, allegedly known to authorities as a drug- dealer, was picked up in the Castel Volturno suburb of Caserta near the southern port city, television news channel SKY TG24 said.
In October, judicial authorities in Naples distributed the video showing the suspected mafia killing in May of 53-year-old Mariano Bacioterracino.
The footage was recorded by a security surveillance camera outside a bar where Bacioterracino was repeatedly shot by a man wearing a peaked cap.
The killer calmly walked away from the scene of the crime with bystanders failing to stop him.
After it was made public the video appeared on television news broadcasts and the websites of newspapers around the world.
Investigating magistrates justified their decision to release the video saying it could serve to help them identify the killer.
Critics, however, including Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, said the video gave a distorted view of Naples.
