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The godfather of the godfathers of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, arrested after thirty years on the run

2023-01-16T15:58:02.941Z


STORY – Forced to treat himself for cancer, the last “boss” of Corleone in Sicily, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested in a clinic.


Rome

The carabinieri vans move slowly through the streets of Palermo beaten this Monday morning by the rain.

The sirens howl.

Other police vehicles, parked along the road, let them pass.

Dozens of onlookers come out of the bars or their buildings, and applaud as the convoy passes.

Agents shake hands and embrace: the most dangerous and wanted mobster in the world has just been arrested.

Matteo Messina Denaro, the latest godfather of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, sits in a black van next to a hooded agent.

The Sicilian boss still wears sunglasses, a distinctive sign visible in outdated photographs dating back more than three decades.

Since that time, the anti-Mafia services have been broadcasting aged robot portraits of the man, now 60 years old.

When two Carabinieri officers escort him to the military vehicle simply holding him by the arms, the criminal…

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Source: lefigaro

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