Carabinieri of the ROS (Specific Operations Group) stand in front of the Maddalena private clinic in Palermo on January 16, 2023 following the arrest of Italy’s major required mafia manager, Matteo Messina Denaro in his indigenous Sicily following 30 yrs on the run.
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Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, soon after 30 years on the run, Italian paramilitary police explained.
Messina Denaro was captured at the clinic in which he was obtaining cure for an undisclosed medical condition, stated Carabinieri Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, who heads the law enforcement force’s specific functions squad.
Messina Denaro was taken to a top secret spot by police quickly after the arrest, Italian state tv claimed.
A young guy when he went into hiding, he is now 60. Messina Denaro, who experienced a power base in the port town of Trapani, in western Sicily, was viewed as Sicily’s Cosa Nostra leading manager even while a fugitive.
He was the last of a few longtime fugitive best-amount Mafia bosses who experienced for a long time eluded capture.
Messina Denaro, who tried out in absentia and convicted of dozens of murders, faces numerous everyday living sentences.
He is established to be imprisoned for are two bombings in Sicily in 1992 that murdered prime anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Among the other grisly crimes he was convicted of is the murder of a Mafia turncoat’s youthful son, who was strangled and his body dissolved in a vat of acid.
The arrest Monday came 30 several years and a day following the capture of convicted “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina, in a Palermo apartment just after 23 many years on the operate.