Matteo Messina Denaro

Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the bosses of the Cosa Nostra Mafia in Sicily and Italy's most wanted man, has been arrested by police while being treated in ...

A suspected sighting of him in September 2021 led to a manhunt and hundreds of tips, the prosecutor said. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tweeted: “A great victory for the state which demonstrates that it does not give up in the face of the Mafia.” “It is a victory for all the police forces that have worked together over these long years to bring the dangerous fugitive to justice,” Italy’s Chief of Police, Lamberto Giannini, said in a statement congratulating the Carabinieri – Italy’s military police – and the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Matteo Messina Denaro, a leader within Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia, has been linked to a string of murders.

“All of this was aimed at trying to get the state to back down from a major onslaught against organised crime that had been gaining momentum … In 1993, he helped organise the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in an attempt to dissuade his father from giving evidence against the mafia, prosecutors say. “[His arrest] is a very important symbolic gesture which shows that ultimately the state will win, and the state is winning in the case of the Sicilian mafia.”

Sicilian mobster who boasted 'I filled a cemetery by myself' managed to stay hidden without going far from home.

Denaro was one of a gang who kept the boy chained up in various locations in western Sicily for two years to put pressure on his father to recant, before he was strangled and his body dissolved in acid. “Today’s arrest is an important step forward, however, it would be a mistake to think that with today’s arrest the fight against the mafia is finished. “He became part of the Corleone group, but he was a very modern boss in some ways,” says Di Girolamo. It’s also important to find out how he was able to remain a fugitive from justice for 30 years, and who was protecting him. “Like the old mafiosi, he sees the mafia as a superior state, involving a select few who are worthy of the honour,” Teresa Principato, a former magistrate and a member of the Direzione Nationale Antimafia (DNA) who was on his trail for decades, said in 2014. “He was never the boss,” says Principato. [invited the wrath of the state](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/22/mafia-godfathers-sicily-palermo-italy) by assassinating two high-profile and widely admired anti-mafia judges, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in 1992. He didn’t need to build himself a bunker like the heads of the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria. “He was not married, but he had a child with his partner. A series of arrests of people close to him, including his sister Patrizia, raised hopes that the net was closing, but none of them would talk. Hundreds of police had been engaged in the search over the years with no success. Thirteen years later, his sidekick, living like an ascetic, eating cheese and chicory and reading his Bible in a shepherd’s hut near his birthplace, Corleone, was run to ground.

Waxaa lagu naaneysaa "Diabolik" oo micno ahaan ah ninka aan la qaban karin, waxaana loo arkaa hoggaamiyaha maafiyada "ee ugu muhiimsan" ee ku nool ...

Ra’iisul Wasaare Giorgia Meloni ayaa sheegtay in Messina Denaro uu ahaa madaxa "ugu muhiimsan" ee maafiyada, qabashadiisana ay "guul weyn" u tahay dalka iyo dagaalkiisa ka dhanka ah dembiyada baaabulan. Anna Sergi, oo ah khabiir dhanka dembiyada ah kana tirsan Jaamacadda Essex, ayaa Messina Denaro ku tilmaantay inuu yahay "kii ugu dambeeyay, ugu xasiloonaa uguna 'nadiifsanaa' burcadda harsan ee Sicily. Messina Denaro waxaa la sheegay inuu gacanyare u ahaa Salvatore Riina, madaxa qabiilka Corleone kaasoo la xiray sanadkii 1993 kaddib 23 sano oo uu dhuumanayay. Messina Denaro ayaa baxsad ahaa tan iyo sanadkii 1993, balse waxaa la rumeysan yahay inuu sii waday inuu amarro siiyo shaqaalihiisa oo ku sugnaa goobo kala duwan oo qarsoodi ah. Magaciisa waa Matteo Messina Denaro maanta ayaana la xiray kaddib 30 sano oo uu ka dhuumanayay dowladda Talyaaniga. Waxaa lagu naaneysaa "Diabolik" oo micno ahaan ah ninka aan la qaban karin, waxaana loo arkaa hoggaamiyaha maafiyada "ee ugu muhiimsan" ee ku nool Talyaaniga.

Italy's most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday, where the man who has been on ...

In 1993 he helped organise the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in an attempt to dissuade his father from giving evidence against the mafia, prosecutors say. He eventually died in jail in 2017, having never broken his code of silence. Messina Denaro, 60, was led away from Palermo's "La Maddalena" hospital by two uniformed carabinieri police and bundled into a waiting black minivan. "We have not won the war, we have not defeated the mafia but this battle was a key battle to win, and it is a heavy blow to organised crime," she said. A second man who had driven Messina Denaro to the hospital was arrested at the scene on suspicion of aiding a fugitive. Nicknamed "Diabolik" and "'U Siccu" (The Skinny One), Messina Denaro had been sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, crimes that shocked the nation and sparked a crackdown on Cosa Nostra.

Citing the clinic's director, Corriere Della Sera reported that Messina Denaro tried unsuccessfully to escape law enforcement, but investigators later said he ...

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The 60-year-old mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was caught just outside a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for ...

According to the He was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture. [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64288928), he is set to be imprisoned for two bombings in Sicily in 1992 that murdered top-anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Falcone's wife and several of their bodyguards.