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Thu 11 Nov 2009Suspected mafia hitman held in Italy
Italian police arrested a suspected mafia hitman today whose brazen killing of a man in Naples last May was caught on video and shocked the country, prompting reluctant witnesses to come forward.
Prosecutors released the video shot by closed-circuit cameras after five months of fruitless investigations, hoping the graphic footage of the broad daylight murder outside a bar would break a wall of silence surrounding the killer's identity.
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