One of Europe's most wanted drug bosses, a Belgian with a master's degree in criminology, has been arrested in Switzerland after two years on the run. 

Flor Bressers, 35, nicknamed the "finger cutter", has been wanted since 2020 when he was sentenced to four years in prison for kidnapping, cutting with a razor and beating a Dutch florist who failed to smuggle drugs into UK customs. 

He had previously been prosecuted in 2010 in Limburg for cutting the finger of a Dutch criminal with pruning shears. He was acquitted for lack of evidence, but the alleged incident gave him the nickname, "finger cutter". 

Bressers has been linked through many cases to a drug gang operating in Antwerp believed to have smuggled several tones of cocaine from South America to Europe. 

He was on the most wanted list in both Belgium and Europol for kidnapping, illegal restraint and hostage-taking and participation in a criminal organization.

Bressers was thought to be hiding in South Africa, but he was arrested in Zurich where he was found with his partner and child. Belgian authorities have requested his extradition.