Matteo Messina Denaro, the most sought after man in Italy, was arrested when he received cancer treatment in a private clinic in Palermo, prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said on Monday.
He was the most sought after man in Italy and at the top of the list of Europol’s most wanted men in Europe.
Italian police chief Lamberto Giannini congratulated the Carabinieri, the country’s military police and the office of the Palermo prosecutor for arrest, which is the result of many years of hard work and collaboration.
“It is a victory for all the police forces that worked together during these long years to translate the dangerous fugitive to justice.”
Italian police chief Lamberto Giannini
Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, tweeted: “A great victory for the state, which demonstrates that it does not give up against the mafia.”
In addition, while talking to the press outside the prosecutor’s office, Meloni said that if Italy had not yet won the “war” against the mafia, it was a “battle that was fundamental to win”.
Who is Matteo Messina Denaro?
Matteo Messina Denaro, who also associates with the nickname of Diabolik, is recognized as one of the successors of the boss of Mafia Bosses Bernardo Provenzano. He was sentenced to life in life for his role in a series of terrorist Attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan in 1993 and killed 10 people. The attacks were organized in revenge for the arrest of his mentor, Salvatore “Toto” Riina, the most powerful leader in the 20th century Sicilian mafia.
Messina Denaro is also accused of having participated in a number of other murders, alone or with others, and was strongly involved in the kidnapping of Giuseppe Di Matteo in 1993, 12, in order to prevent her father from testifying against the mafia. The child spent two years in captivity, before being strangled to death by his own godfather, Giovanni Brusca, and his body was dissolved in acid.
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