Gang of alleged armed robbers in their 60s and 70s arrested in Italy

Six were known to Rome's criminal underworld for tenacity in carrying out burglaries at post offices

A gang of six alleged robbers in their 60s and 70s known in Rome's criminal underworld for their tenacity in carrying out a series of armed burglaries at post offices in the city have been arrested by police in Italy.

The gang's leaders were 70-year-old Italo De Witt, nicknamed the German", who became renowned in the mid-1990s after a sophisticated heist of a bank near the Spanish Steps, and a 75-year-old who played the role of lookout.