Man arrested for impersonating Mafia boss in order to obtain free drinks and croissants

A man from Battipaglia, near the southern Italian city of Salerno, was arrested after telling a barman he was a Mafia chief in order to get free drinks and croissants.

Ubaldo Citarella, 52, allegedly “boasted for days” to the bartender that he was a mafia boss from the Camorra clan, all the while “eating croissants and drinking coffee and soft drinks”.



He even backed up the story by leaving a bottle of petrol outside the bar in Battipaglia in response to a request to pay.

The bartender eventually grew tired of the abuses and reported Citarella to the police, who later arrested him.