The boss of Cosa Nostra has been arrested in a non-public clinic in Palermo the place he had gone to obtain remedy On the top of the Sicilian mafia a number of sentences of life imprisonment fall for bloody assaults He is taken into account the mastermind of the assaults that triggered the demise of the 2 anti-mafia magistrates Paolo Borsellino and Giovani Falcone
Italian police announce that they’ve arrested probably the most wished man within the nation, Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro (60 years outdated), stories AP. The boss of the prison group Cosa Nostra had been on the run for 30 years.
The arrest happened at a non-public well being clinic in Palermo, the Sicilian capital, the place he attended for medical remedy, in response to a Caribinieri commander, Pasquale Angelosanto, quoted by the AdnKronos information company. The arrest happens after that the investigations of Palermo prosecutors Maurizio de Lucia and deputy Paolo Guido will intensify, in response to native media.
Several life sentences fall on the capo for the 1993 assaults in Florence, Rome and Milan through which ten individuals died. He can also be thought-about the mastermind of the bomb assaults that triggered the demise of the 2 anti-mafia magistrates (in 1992) Paolo Borsellino and Giovani Falcone, his spouse, Francesca Morvillo, and eight escort brokers.
For the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, it’s a “nice victory for the State”, which “doesn’t give in to the mafia”. Meloni has identified that Messina’s arrest occurred 30 years after the opposite symbolic capo, Salvatore Totò Riina.