Mafia fugitive tracked down through cooking videos on YouTube

From the frying pan straight into the fire: Biert inadvertently gave himself away on a YouTube channel in which he showed off his Italian cooking skills. — Filepic/Pixabay

ROME: A Mafia fugitive was caught in the Caribbean after appearing on YouTube cooking videos in which he hid his face but inadvertently showed his tattoos, Italian police said on March 29.

Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, led a quiet life in Boca Chica, in the Dominican Republic, with the local Italian expat community considering him a “foreigner”, police said in a statement.