Who is Matteo Messina Denaro, the most wanted mobster in the world who was arrested in Italy after 30 years

With the arrest this Monday of Matteo Messina Denaroconsidered the last “boss of bosses” of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia (southern Italy) and the most wanted man in Italy, concludes a story of blood, power, and secrecy that has protected him for 30 years.

The “last godfather”60 years old, He was detained at the private clinic “la Maddalena” in Palermothe Sicilian capital, where he had gone for medical treatment with the arrogance of knowing that he was protected by a network that had allowed him to be hidden from the world for 30 years in his Sicily native.

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The fugitive, known by the nicknames of “U siccu” (the thin one, in Sicilian dialect) or “Diabolik” because he liked the well-known thief from the famous comic, He was born in the Sicilian town of Castelvetrano and his father, “Don Ciccio”, was already the boss of the Trapani mafia.

Little by little, he ascended positions in the Cosa Nostra and the investigators considered that he became the “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian mafia already from his hiding after the arrest of Toto Riina, just 30 years ago, and later of Bernardo Provenzano, who was on the run from Justice for 38 years.

The head of Italy’s Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, is escorted in a vehicle by carabinieri after being arrested in his Sicily. (AFP). (-/)

Messina Denaro had been a fugitive since the summer of 1993, when in a letter written to his then girlfriend, Angela, after the mafia massacres in Rome, Milan and Florence, he announced the beginning of his life as a fugitive from Justice. “You will hear from me (implying that I knew that soon after his name would be associated with serious bloodshed) and paint me as a demon, but they are all falsehoods,” he wrote.

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The last sentence considers him the cof the attacks that caused the death of the two anti-mafia magistrates in 1992, Paolo Borsellino and Giovani Falcone, his wife, Francesca Morvillo, and eight escort agents.

Also, He accumulated several life sentences for dozens of murders, including that of little Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of the justice collaborator strangled and dissolved in acid after almost two years of captivity.

In recent years, some details of his life have become known, such as that, despite being the most wanted man in Italythis did not prevent him from traveling to Barcelona to have an eye operation, as has been shown in various investigations.

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The power of the considerate last boss of Cosa Nostrathe last of the “Corleoneses”, is demonstrated not only in his extensive network of contacts and front men that he has procured over the years, but can also be quantified in the more than 4,000 million euros that have been confiscated from his entourage. .

According to the researchers, Messina Denaro continued from hiding to give orders in Cosa Nostraas they prove “pizzini”, the little pieces of paper with which its members communicate, intercepted by the Italian Police in recent years.

There were only a few photographs of him from 30 years ago and the last robot sketch includes new details entrusted to the Police by some of the detainees around him, which are incredibly similar to those that have been seen in a photograph released today by the authorities, in which he is seen in a car with the police that they have arrested him.

In this image he appears older, with dyed black hair, slightly heavier, but above all without the dark glasses with which he was known due to vision problems.

Although his figure has always been surrounded by legends, the researchers pointed out that the elusive “capo” of Costa Nostra He was a very different personality from the rest of the mafia bosses like Riina and Provenzano, of low intelligence and hidden for years in the middle of the countryside in terrible conditions.

There was talk about Messina Denaro of his great intelligence and that he loved luxury, travel, cars and clothes, and now, after his arrest, many of these legends that were built over years can be clarified.

Source: Elcomercio