Messina Denaro one the country’s most-wanted mafia bosses in Italy had been arrested.
According to the report, the known mafia personality had been on the run for three decades.
His arrest was achieved in a private hospital where he has gone for treatment in Sicilian capital Palermo.
Prosecutors reveal notorious mafia man is a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia.
The report says has been sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and also faces a life sentence for his role in bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan, which killed 10 people the next year.
The Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has overwhelmingly described Messina Denaro arrest on Monday as “a great victory for the state that shows it never gives up in the face of the mafia”.
Police report says said in September 2022 that Messina Denaro was still able to issue commands relating to the way the mafia was run in the area around the western Sicilian city of Trapani, his regional stronghold, despite his long disappearance.
Messina Denaro is from the small town of Castelvetrano near Trapani and is accused by prosecutors of being solely or jointly responsible for numerous other murders in the 1990s.
According to the prosecutor, one of his notable activities was in 1993 when he helped to organize the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in an attempt to deter his dad from giving some evidence against the mafia.
The boy was held in captivity for two years before he was strangled and his body dissolved in acid.
The arrest Monday came 30 years and a day after January 15, 1993, the capture of convicted “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina, in a Palermo apartment after 23 years on the run.
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