Michael
Kaplan at the New York Post offers a piece on a Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss and
fugitive.
Few
would recognize Matteo Messina Denaro on the street, but the Cosa Nostra leader
is one of the most sought-after fugitives on the planet.
His reign of terror amped up in 1993, after
authorities tracked down and arrested Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore “Toto”
Riina, who had spent 23 years on the lam, in Palermo, Italy. Soon after, his
protégé Denaro allegedly played a key role in making sure there would be hell
to pay for the pinch.
The revenge run was “an attack on Italy [and]
Denaro’s craziest crime,” Cyprien d’Haese, co-director of a new episode of
Netflix’s “World’s Most Wanted” that dropped Wednesday, told The Post. Denaro
and his blood-thirsty crew “put bombs in Milan, Rome and Florence. They blew up
national monuments and a museum,” d’Haese added. “It was their way of saying,
‘We are so powerful. We can get anyone anywhere.’ ”
A precociously violent “baby-killer who
learned to use a gun at the age of 14,” according to d’Haese, Denaro allegedly
assumed the godfather mantle in 2007, following the arrest of previous leader
Bernardo Provenzano.
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