Matteo Messina Denaro, the last "godfather" of the Sicilian mafia and one of the most wanted criminals in the world, was arrested in Palermo after 30 years on the run. Denaro, 60, a fugitive since 1993, was arrested in a private clinic in the Sicilian city.
Nicknamed Diabolik or U Siccu (the skinny one), Denaro was born in Castelvetrano, Sicily, in 1962. His father was a powerful Cosa Nostra boss, and Denaro thrived in the family business, building an illicit multibillion-dollar empire in the energy and retail sectors.
The Trapani mafia boss was sentenced to life imprisonment for dozens of murders, including that of little Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of a repentant, strangled and dissolved in acid after almost two years of imprisonment, for the massacres of '92, cost the lives of judges Falcone and Borsellino, and for the attacks of '93 in Milan, Florence and Rome.
Matteo Messina Denaro, the last "godfather" of the Sicilian mafia and one of the most wanted criminals in the world, was arrested in Palermo after 30 years on the run. Denaro, 60, a fugitive since 1993, was arrested in a private clinic in the Sicilian city.
Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested inside the private clinic "La Maddalena" in Palermo, where he had been treated in day hospital for over a year. Denaro, as we learn from investigative sources, periodically made checks in that structure, which last night during the Ros blitz had been secured with several dozen men to protect all other patients.
The Trapani mafia boss was sentenced to life imprisonment for dozens of murders, including that of little Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of the repentant strangled and dissolved in acid after almost two years of imprisonment, for the massacres of '92, cost the lives of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, and for the attacks of '93 in Milan, Florence and Rome.
Nicknamed "Diabolik" or "U Siccu" (the skinny one), Denaro was born in Castelvetrano, Sicily, in 1962. His father was a powerful Cosa Nostraboss, and Denaro thrived in the family business, building an illicit multibillion-dollar empire in the energy and retail sectors.
After other failed attempts, this morning's blitz was the definitive one. Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested while having breakfast at the clinic's bar. At that moment, from dozens of patients and their families, present in the clinic, applause and shouts of encouragement started: "Well done, well done!"