The 60-year-old rookie – who once boasted he “single-handedly filled a cemetery” – walked out of a clinic in handcuffs and under strong guard
The wanted for 30 years the leader of Cosa Nostra and the founder of the Italian mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested this morning in Palermo, while he was in a clinic for tests.
The 60-year-old pioneer – who once boasted that he “single-handedly filled a cemetery” – emerged from a clinic in handcuffs and guarded by a heavy force of Italian police and anti-terrorist services, into the special van and taken to a secret location.
The arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro… pic.twitter.com/XfSK1rXRXh
— Gianluca Abate (@Aba_Tweet) January 16, 2023
At the time of the arrest, the crowd applauded and cheered the policemen for their tremendous success.
Vedere le persone che sultano per la capture di Matteo Messina Denaro è la cosa più bella che vedrete oggi (a parte l’arresto). pic.twitter.com/VevGFfYD7v
— Ida De Vico (@idaho____) January 16, 2023
Trent’anni di attesa, gli abbracci ei “grazie” ai carabineri del Ros #MatteoMessinaDenaro pic.twitter.com/5V5HCjqnGr
— Andrea Tundo (@andtundo) January 16, 2023
Messina Denaro was the head of Cosa Nostra and “chief of chiefs” of the Italian mafia and was on the most wanted list since 1993. In fact, according to Forbes magazine he was among the ten most dangerous, wanted criminals in the world.
He was sentenced in absentia to life in 1992 and 1993 for the murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borcellino and the bombings in Florence, Rome and Milan that killed 10 people.
Since 1993, Denaro “disappeared” and entered the lists of the most wanted fugitives, without anyone being able to locate him.
Mobster from…cot
Born on April 26, 1962 in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily, Denaro was a mobster from birth.
His father, Francesco Messina Denaro, known as Don Ciccio, was the head of the Castelvetrano mafia and head of the Mafia Commission of the Trapani region.
Young Mateo learned to use a gun at 14 and committed the first of many murders at 18.
Matteo “consolidated” his position in Cosa Nostra shortly after, when he killed the rival organization’s boss from Alcamo, Vincenzo Milazzo, and strangled his three-months-pregnant girlfriend.
Without hesitation he had also strangled a 12-year-old child, Giuseppe Di Matteo, just because his father was a reformed mobster who cooperated with justice.
In total it is estimated that he killed at least 50 people on contact. “I filled a graveyard by myself,” he once boasted – and he was right.
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