Italy Arrests Sicilian Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro

The New York Post reports that Italy has captured their number one fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro (seen in the above photo). 

He was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run, according to the Italian paramilitary police. 

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Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested after 30 years on the run (nypost.com)

This Wanted Sicilian Cosa Nostra Monster ‘Killed Enough People To Fill A Small Cemetery’

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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https://nypost.com/2020/08/08/wanted-mobster-killed-enough-people-to-fill-a-small-cemetery/

Meet The Boss Of Italy's Biggest Business, The Ruthless Don Running The Mafia

Nick Pisa at the British newspaper the Daily Mirror wrote an interesting piece about the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.

The organized crime group was recently reported to be the biggest Italian business.

He's the boss of Italy’s biggest business – but he’s not your run-of-the-mill chief executive.

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Worth an estimated £2.5billion, Matteo Messina Denaro loves fast cars, designer watches and sharp suits. But 49-year-old Denaro is also a cold-blooded murderer whose ruthless streak has helped him rise to the very summit of the Italian Mafia.
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Now known as the Don of Dons, he is believed to have personally executed at least 50 people and ordered the deaths of scores more. He has been on the run since 1993 and has chillingly boasted: “I filled a cemetery all by myself.”
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/14/meet-the-boss-of-italy-s-biggest-business-the-ruthless-don-running-the-115billion-mafia-115875-23698278/