The Fugitive

Hometown passion for this year's soccer champions from Naples has betrayed the hideout of a longtime crime fugitive from Italy, who was captured while riding a motor scooter on a Greek island, Italian police said Saturday.

A 29-year-old man accused of murdering a 51-year-old man in Gazi in downtown Athens last September was found hiding in a monastery in eastern Attica and arrested, authorities said on Wednesday.

The fugitive was hosted in an apartment by a 52-year-old woman from Ukraine who was also arrested

Police have arrested an escaped convict who was serving a life sentence for the murder of a businessman on the island of Mykonos.

The arrest was made on Monday in an apartment in the Athens suburb of Kallithea.

Vaclavic was arrested after the incident that resulted in three deaths, including two members of Spain's Guardia Civil (Civil Guard).

According to Italian media, Vaclavic was among the most wanted fugitives in Spain, and a suspect in the murder of a bartender near in Bologna and of a gamekeeper, committed while he was on the run from Italian police.

A 48-year-old Albanian man who escaped from a prison in the neighboring country where he was serving a 20-year sentence for murdering his cousin nearly two decades ago, was apprehended by police in the western Greek port city of Patra on Saturday.

The fugitive, who was not named, had been at large since 1997.