The Italian Police have released the ‘new face’ of Giovanni Motisi, the last great escapee from Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, sentenced to life imprisonment who has been wanted since 1998 and who is included in the list of fugitives of “maximum danger” of the country’s “special research program.”

The new robotic portrait is the last step in the investigations to locate Motisi, 65 years old and considered the Totó’s “confidence killer” Riima, top boss of Cosa Nostra when the mafia spread murders and attacks across the country to try to subdue the State in the 80s and 90s of the last century.

The ‘Age Progresssion’ system has been in charge of creating the new robot portrait. The program allows you to perform the progressive physiognomic aging of the facebased on the study and updating of some specific anthropometric profiles that characterize the family to which the investigated person belongs, as explained by the Police in a statement.

“Taking advantage of the professionalism and advanced technologies of the Scientific Police Service of the National Police, some images of the fugitive, dating from the 1980s and late 1990s, have been ‘revisited’ and updated,” the Italian Police said. which he added that it has been possible to “make a prototype with some possible variations of the current connotations of the face” of Motisi, in a “new attempt to narrow the circle of the investigation to capture the dangerous fugitive”.

“The new ‘identikit’ will facilitate the work of the investigators of the Central Operational Service and the Palermo Mobile Team and will also serve to request the collaboration of citizens,” the police note adds.

One of the most powerful mafia bosses in Palermo

Motisi, known as ‘U pacchiuni’ (the fat one), is one of the most powerful mafia bosses in Palermo, he became in January 2023, after the arrest of the last Cosa Nostra boss, Matteo Messina Denaro in the number one fugitive wanted in Italyaccording to some researchers.

Sentenced to life imprisonment twicefor the murders of several commissioners and police officers, Motisi, according to some sources, was removed from the Sicilian mafia leadership in 2002 after he stopped communicating with her.