Most wished Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested in Sicily

After 30 years on the run, Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested in Sicily, police mentioned.

Matteo Denaro was arrested from a non-public well being clinic in Palermo presumably set to endure cosmetic surgery, a CNN report mentioned quoting prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia as saying on Monday. Denaro has been a fugitive since 1993 and was thought of by Europol as one among Europe’s most wished males.

Italy’s chief of Police, Lamberto Giannini, advised CNN: “It is a victory for all the police forces that have worked together over these long years to bring the dangerous fugitive to justice.” He congratulated the Carabinieri, Italy’s army police, and the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tweeted: “A great victory for the state, which demonstrates that it does not give up in the face of the Mafia.” Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crosetto referred to as the arrest “a sign of a state that wins against Mafia.”

Meloni whereas talking outdoors the prosecutor’s workplace, mentioned that Italy had not but gained the “war” towards the Mafia, this was a “battle that was fundamental to win” however “it’s a day we can celebrate and tell our children that the Mafia can be defeated”.

Messina Denaro is assumed to have ordered dozens of Mafia-related murders and was given a number of life sentences in absentia for his many crimes, most notably in 1992 for his involvement within the separate murders of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in line with CNN.

The CNN report additionally mentioned that Denaro obtained his most up-to-date life sentence in 2020 for deadly bombings in Milan, Florence and Rome within the late Nineteen Nineties, and for the homicide and torture of the 11-year-old son of an enemy who gave proof towards the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.

He was Cosa Notra’s longest-hiding fugitive, having been a wished man for practically 30 years.

Denaro was taken into police custody at round 10 am (native time) after a raid was carried out by greater than 100 specialised brokers with anti-Mafia Carabinieri within the early hours of the morning.

It shouldn’t be identified what remedy he was receiving. However, the Maddalena clinic the place he was arrested is a non-public clinic identified for cosmetic surgery and different elective surgical procedures, in line with CNN.

Denaro is being held in a secret location, the Carabinieri press workplace advised CNN on Monday. 

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