German police have issued a description of a man they say could be linked to Wednesday's execution-style killing of six Italian men in the city of Duisburg.
The man was one of two spotted near the scene of the shootings early in the morning, Duisburg police said. Witnesses said the men fled the area at high speed in a large, dark-coloured car, in the direction of the city zoo.
A police sketch, which police said is of the car's driver, shows a dark-haired man, clean-shaven apart from long sideburns and with a dark mole beneath his right eye. The man has a thin frame and stands at just over six feet tall, police said.
Investigators believe the Duisburg killings, which took place outside an Italian restaurant, were the latest chapter in a long-running feud between two Mafia clans in the region of Calabria, home to the Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Italian police searched houses and set up roadblocks around San Luca yesterday, the Calabrian town of 4,000 at the centre of the feud.
Italian secret services said in a report this month that the Ndrangheta was the most dangerous crime syndicate in Italy and one of world's top drug trafficking cartels.
The German authorities have said the group established a presence in Germany some years ago.