A southern businessman known on
Italian television as the "King of Apples" died Wednesday after
he was shot in a slip road off the A1 motorway, police said.
Gennaro Galdiero, 40, frequently appeared on TV chat shows
as a prosperous expert on the fruit and vegetable market in the
Campania region around Naples.
Carabinieri military police said they had arrested another
fruit and vegetable producer, aged 52, on charges of murder.
Officers said two men apparently carried out the ambush
Tuesday night, but that they did not believe it was linked to
the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, as the attack did not have
the hallmarks of a professional assassin.
Galdiero had wound down the window of his car in the slip
road near a restaurant close to the town of Caianello as if he
had been conversing with his assailants.
He had no criminal record and the man held for questioning
by the Carabinieri was a member of the same consortium of fruit
and vegetable producers as the dead man, police sources said.
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