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11 August 2019It was the last black bloc fugitive condemned for the devastation at the 2001 G8 in Genoa, along with nine other comrades. Vincenzo Vecchi, 46, was arrested in France where he lived under a false name. To betray his love for his partner and his youngest daughter: following the woman's movements, the French police, on input from the Italian one, discovered their meeting in a town in Savoy. Hence the development of the investigations that led to the identification of the place where he lived and arrested.

Vecchi, an exponent of the anarcho-autonomous area of ​​Milan, was a fugitive from July 2012, following the final sentence of the Cassation for the events of Genoa at 11 years and 6 months: he was accused of devastation and looting, robbery and port of arms. For the investigators on 20 and 21 July 2001, during the G8, Vecchi was part of a group of people who, with their faces covered, devastated the city, destroying and burning. They were those of the so-called Black Bloc: they targeted banks, cars, a supermarket and attacked the Marassi prison. Vecchi was identified as a promoter of devastation, one "pushing others to act", he launched "bottles, stones and Molotov cocktails". After Genoa, Milan, where he participated in the violence in Corso Buenos Aires in 2006, followed by another sentence.

After an intensification of the investigative action, even with interceptions, and the analysis of information on old comrades in the struggle and the family, the police considered that Vecchi was in France. The French investigated the investigation further and discovered that Vecchi had met the ex-cohabitant and his youngest daughter in a town in Savoy, spending a week of vacation. Then the woman and her daughter returned to Milan and Vecchi to Brittany, where he lived under a false identity.

By monitoring the woman and following the traces of the phones used by the couple, the investigators of the Service for the Contrast of Extremism and Internal Terrorism and of the Digos of Milan located the fugitive, the information was passed to the French police who on 8 August last arrested Vecchi in Saint Gravé dans le Morbhian, a small village in the Brittany region where he lived in a 'commune', he called himself Vincent Papale and was a painter. He was stopped in the street while he went to work. He had no identification documents, but only a card bearing the name of Vincent Papale. Vecchi is now imprisoned in the prison of Rennes.