The considered boss of bosses of Costa Nostra, the mafia of Sicily (southern Italy), and the criminal country’s most wanted Fleeing from justice for 30 years, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been arrested today by the Carabinieri, as reported by the Italian media.
The capture of the mobster, with various life sentences for the Cosa Nostra attacks in 1993 and numerous homicides, comes after the intensification of investigations carried out by Palermo prosecutors Maurizio de Lucia and deputy Paolo Guido, the media added.
With the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, a story of blood, power, and secrecy that has protected you for 30 years. The 60-year-old “last godfather” was arrested at the “la Maddalena” private clinic in Palermo, the Sicilian capital, where he had gone for medical treatment with the arrogance of knowing that he was protected by a network that had allowed him to be hidden. to the world for 30 years in his native Sicily.
The fugitive, known with the “U siccu” nicknames (the thin one, in Sicilian dialect) or “Diabolik” because he liked the well-known thief from the famous comic, he was born in the Sicilian town of Castelvetrano and his father, “Don Ciccio”, was already the head of the Trapani mafia.
Little by little he was promoted positions in Cosa Nostra and the investigators considered that he became the “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian mafia from his hiding place after the arrest of Toto Riina, just 30 years ago, and later of Bernardo Provenzano, who was on the run from Justice for 38 years.
Fugitive since the summer of 1993
Messina Denaro had been a fugitive since the summer of 1993, when in a letter written to his then girlfriend, Ángela, after the Mafia massacres in Rome, Milan and Florenceannounced the beginning of his life as a fugitive from Justice.
“You will hear from me (implying that he knew his name would soon be associated with serious bloodshed) and be painted as a demon, but it is all falsehoods,” he wrote.
The last sentence considers him the mastermind of the attacks that caused the death of the two anti-mafia magistrates in 1992 Paolo Borsellino and Giovani Falcone, the latter’s wife, Francesca Morvillo, and eight escort agents.
Also, he accumulated several life sentences for dozens of murders, including that of little Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of the justice collaborator strangled and dissolved in acid after almost two years in captivity.
In recent years, some details of his life have become known, such as that, despite being the most wanted man in Italy, this did not prevent him from travel to barcelona to operate on the sight, as has been shown in several investigations.
Considered the last boss of Costa Nostra
The power of the considered last boss of Cosa Nostra, the last of the “Corleoneses”, is demonstrated not only in his wide network of contacts and figureheads that he has procured over the years, but can also be quantified in the more than 4,000 million euros that has been confiscated from those around him.
According to the investigators, Messina Denaro continued from hiding to teach orders in Cosa Nostra, as evidenced by the “pizzini”, the pieces of paper with which its members communicate, intercepted by the Italian Police in recent years.
There were only a few photographs of him from 30 years ago and the last robot sketch includes new details entrusted to the Police by some of the detainees around him, which are incredibly similar to those that have been seen in a photograph released today by the authorities, in which he is seen in a car with the police that they have arrested him.
In this image he appears older, with dyed black hair, slightly heavier, but above all without the dark glasses with which he was known due to vision problems. Although his figure has always been surrounded by legends, the researchers pointed out that the elusive “capo” de Costa Nostra was a very different personality from the rest of the mafia bosses such as Riina and Provenzano, of low intelligence and hidden for years in the middle of the countryside in appalling conditions.
Messina Denaro was talked about his great intelligence and that he loved luxury, travel, automobiles, and clothing. Now, after his arrest, many of these legends that were built for years can be clarified.
Source: Lasexta
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