After 30 years on the run, Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily by the Carabinieri police.
The 60 year old was detained in a private clinic in the Sicilian capital Palermo, where he was reportedly receiving treatment.
Denaro is believed to be a leader of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia and has been sentenced to life in prison in absentia for multiple murders, including the 1992 killings of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and the 1993 bombing attacks in Milan, Florence, and Rome.
He is also allegedly responsible for the kidnapping, torture, and killing of the 11-year-old son of a mafioso turned state witness.
Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni called the arrest “a great victory for the state.”
Pasquale Angelosanto, the general of the carabinieri national police, said…
“Today, January 16, the carabinieri…
