The disease eventually trapped Italy’s top mafia fugitives |
ROME, 16 january (Reuters) – Monday imprisonment For Matteo Messina Denaro, who was Italy’s most wanted man until 1990, ill health more than anything ended his 30 years as a fugitive.
60-year-old Messina Denaro was caught in front of a private clinic in Palermo together with his accomplice. Judicial sources said that the mafioso was a regular visitor there after a cancer operation last year.
Palermo prosecutor Paolo Guido told a press conference that the disease is “one of the events in the life of a (fugitive) person that forces them to go public.”
His sick after receiving information that the police Messina contacted Denaro, along with other potential suspects of a similar age and condition national excluded by checking the database of the health system.
Pasquale Angelosanto, general of the ROS special forces of the Carabinieri police, said the investigative work was “relentless, constant and increasing”.
He added that over the years, including Carabinieri police officer Messina Denaro’s sister and other family members 10More than 0 alleged accomplices imprisonment and about 150 million euros (162 million dollars) worth of assets, which severely undermined his support network.
Palermo Prosecutor General Maurizio de Lucia said the man, eventually known as “U Siccu” (the thin one) or “Diabolik” (an Italian comic book character), did not resist and did not try to escape.
“We caught a very dangerous fugitive without violence, we even had to use handcuffs.
Officials well maintained, healthy looking, €35,000 (37,840 dollars) found a man with a luxury watch worth Rs. Police in the photos, Messina Denaro is wearing a brown fur-lined jacket, glasses, and a brown and white wool hat.
Police and while the judges don’t know what Messina Denaro looks like — other than computer-generated images based on decades of photos — their right man imprisonment what they did was immediately clear.
Another special purpose of the Carabinieri police chiefCol. Lucio Arcidiacono said, “Looking at him, there was very little to confirm, he was who we expected to find.”
Prosecutor General de Lucia said Messina Denaro had spent his life in hiding in various parts of Italy, but had recently remained in his native Trapani province, in western Sicily, and in the island’s regional capital, Palermo.
Questions still political and the extent to which other institutional connections allowed the mobster to evade justice for so long, de Lucia referred to his supposed white-collar subjects as the “mafia bourgeoisie.”
“Investigations are ongoing.
Meanwhile, Messina Denaro looks set to spend time behind bars.
Prosecutors, a long one crime said a cancer-stricken mobster convicted in absentia of his list, including a teenage boy whose body was dissolved in acid, was fit enough to spend time in prison.
“He will certainly be treated and cared for in prison, as every Italian citizen is entitled to,” Guido said.
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Alvise Armellini, reporting by Angelo Amante; Edited by Crispian Balmer and Mark Potter
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2023-01-17 07:13:38
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