Last Costra Nostra boss CAUGHT after 30 years... Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted man, arrested in Sicily

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Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the bosses of the Cosa Nostra Mafia in Sicily and Italy’s most wanted man, has been arrested by police while being treated in a private health clinic in Palermo, prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said Monday.

He had been a fugitive since 1993 and was considered by Europol one of the most wanted men in Europe, de Lucia told 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,” Italy’s chief of Police, Lamberto Giannini, said in a statement congratulating the Carabinieri – Italy’s military 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.”

Defense Minister Guido Crosetto called the arrest “a sign of a state that wins against Mafia.”

Speaking outside the prosecutor’s office, Meloni said that while Italy had not yet won the “war” against the Mafia, this was a “battle that was fundamental to win.”

“It’s a day we can celebrate and tell our children that the Mafia can be defeated,” she said.

A life of crime
Messina Denaro is thought to have ordered dozens of Mafia-related murders, and was given several life sentences in absentia for his many crimes, most notably in 1992 for his involvement in the separate murders of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

He received his most recent life sentence in 2020 for fatal bombings in Milan, Florence and Rome in the late 1990s, and for the murder and torture of the 11-year-old son of an enemy who gave evidence against the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.

Having been a wanted man for nearly 30 years, he was Cosa Notra’s longest-hiding fugitive.


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[Mrfreddygoodbud]

this muthafucka was the devil fo real..bruh...

everybody feared him..

and the ONLY reason he was caught is because his fuckin kidneys

are failing..

he THOUGHT the hospital could buy him more time, but, unless he gets a

transplant, his days severly numbered...

he was damn near runnin all of europe...

but something is going on they got el chapos son too,

causing damn near world war three in mexico...

 

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He had a poster of Marlon Brando as The Godfather on the wall

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Messina Denaro: Second Mafia boss bunker found by Italian police

Police searched Matteo Messina Denaro's hideout after he was arrested on 17 January

A second hideout used by Italy's most wanted mobster Matteo Messina Denaro has been discovered at the back of a wardrobe with a sliding base.
Italian police said jewellery, gemstones and silverware were found in the hidden chamber.
Empty paper boxes were also found, suggesting that potentially revealing documents were cleared out after Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday.
He had been attending a chemotherapy session at a private clinic in Sicily.
Shortly after being apprehended, the Mafia boss was taken to a prison in L'Aquila, in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, where reports say he will continue to receive treatment for his cancer.

On Thursday, Messina Denaro declined to appear via videolink at a hearing on the 1992 killings of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

The killings are only two of the crimes Messina Denaro - a former boss of the powerful Cosa Nostra organised crime group - has been found guilty of.
Italian media reported that there are signs the second hideout - a small chamber barely big enough for one person - had been inhabited "recently".

The bunker is in a house about 300m from the Mafia boss's first hideout in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara.
Car keys found in the bag Messina Denaro was carrying at the time of his arrest led investigators to that first location. Police raided the location on Monday afternoon and found a 60sq m ground floor flat, which was described as "comfortable".
Italian media said that luxury perfumes, expensive furniture and designer clothes were found at the location, as well two cell phones and Viagra pills.
Police had been hunting the mafia chief for three decades when he was caught on Monday. He had made the appointment at the clinic under a false name.

The alias, Andrea Bonafede, aroused the suspicion of police when they realised it was the name of deceased Mafia boss Leonardo Bonafede's nephew.
Phone-mapping showed the real Bonafede's mobile was not in Palermo in 2020 and 2021 when a man using the name had surgery in the city.
During his time at the top of the Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate, Messina Denaro oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking.

He was convicted in absentia in 2002 of a string of murders.
Details of how Messina Denaro lived before his arrest have been starting to emerge.
He was living in an unassuming house in Campobello di Mazara, 116km (72 miles) from Palermo and just 8km from his birthplace of Castelvetrano.

A neighbour told Italian TV he frequently saw the man and that they would greet one another regularly.

Messina Denaro: Second Mafia boss bunker found by Italian police - BBC News