Italy’s most wanted fugitive has been arrested. The leader of the Sicilian mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested in a clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run. The police have searched for him for decades, dozens of people have been questioned and arrested to find him.
“Today, January 16, the carabinieri arrested the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro inside a health facility in Palermo, where he had gone for therapeutic treatment,” said Pasquale Angelosanto, general of the carabinieri national police.
Messina is considered the leader of the group la Cosa Nostra and has been on the run since the 1990s. He was tried and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, this due to various crimes such as: 1992 murder of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellinothe deadly 1993 bombings in Milan, Florence and Rome, and the kidnapping, torture and murder of a mobster’s 11-year-old son turned state witness.
Messina Denaro was captured at a clinic where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed health problem, said Carabinieri General Pasquale Angelosanto, who heads the police force’s special operations team.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tweeted that the capture was “a great victory for the state, which shows that it does not give in to the Mafia.” Matteo Messina Denaro is the author of fifty murders, including children and pregnant women, and one of the bloodiest Cosa Nostra attacks in the 1990s. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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