Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted mafia leader “Father of Fathers” has been arrested after 30 years. |
Matteo Messina Denaro, the leader of Cosa Nostra, known as the “Father of Fathers” on the island of Sicily, was captured in a private clinic in Palermo, the capital of the island.
Gendarmerie special operations unit ROS, at the clinic where Messina Denaro went for treatment imprisonment announced that it was done.
The Italian press, based on sources at the clinic, wrote that Denaro had been receiving treatment here for at least a year.
It is reported that the La Maddalena clinic, where the mafia boss was arrested, specializes in cancer treatment.
Ansa news Agency Messina wrote that Denaro underwent chemotherapy at the clinic.
The owner of the clinic, Stefania Filosto, said in a statement published in “Corriere della Sera” that Messina Denaro applied to the clinic under a false name (Bonafede).
“He was in line to be tested with other patients,” Filosto said. “Suddenly, armed men appeared, the mafia leader, trying to escape, went through the gates and went out into the street, where he was caught by the gendarmerie.”
After the operation, the images taken around the clinic began to spread.
In one of them, it is seen that the citizens gathered around cheering as the vehicles of the security forces leave the clinic.
Messina Denaro, 60, had been wanted since 1993.
The mafia leader, who is remembered for boasting that he could “fill a graveyard” with his victims, is said to be linked to around 50 murders.
A mafia leader is guilty of killing or ordering the killing of dozens of people for life imprisonment was sentenced to punishment.
These murders include the murder and acidification of the son of a Mafia confessor, and the 1992 murders of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Messina Denaro was also convicted for his involvement in the 1993 bombings in Rome, Florence and Milan.
Denaro was born in 1962 in Castelvetrano, Sicily, the son of Francesco Messina Denaro (Don Ciccio), the head of one of the Cosa Nostra clans.
Matteo Messina Denaro succeeded his father, who had been a fugitive for years, after his death in 1998.
Messina Denaro ran Cosa Nostra’s businesses, including illegal waste disposal, money laundering and drug trafficking.
The mob boss, who was last seen on vacation in the summer of 1993, is believed to have continued to command after that date, despite being on the run.
Denaro is said to be the successor to Cosa Nostra bosses Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Riina, who died in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
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