Matteo Messina Denaro: the boss of Cosa Nostra has cancer and has been transferred to a secret location

The considered chief of chiefs of Costa Nostrathe Sicilian mafia (southern Italy), Matteo Messina Denarohas been transferred to a secret location after his arrest this Monday at a health clinic in Palermo, the Sicilian capital, where he went to receive medical treatment for colon cancer he suffers from.

The most wanted criminal in the countrywho has been on the run for 30 years, regularly underwent medical examinations at the La Maddalena private clinic, in Palermowhere dozens of police officers had stationed themselves to guarantee the safety of the rest of the patients during the arrest, according to the investigators, quoted by local media.

LOOK: Matteo Messina Denaro, the most wanted capo of the Italian mafia for 30 years, is arrested in Sicily

The head of the Sicilian mafia suffered from colon cancer and had liver metastases for which he underwent periodic cycles of chemotherapy treatments, for which he allegedly used the surname Bonafede, sources at the clinic indicated.

When he was arrested, Messina Denaro was not bedridden, but undergoing medical examinations.

A mugshot released by Italy’s Carabinieri shows mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted man, following his arrest in Palermo, Sicily. (EFE).

“Today, January 16, 2023, the carabineros Special Operational Group of the territorial Command of the region of Sicilywithin the framework of the investigation coordinated by the Palermo prosecutor’s office, they have arrested the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro inside a health facility where he had gone to undergo medical treatment,” announced General Pasquale Angelosanto.

The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, confirmed the arrest, which she described as “a great victory for the State” and which shows that “the State does not surrender to the mafia.”

Meloni, who stressed that the arrest occurred the day after the anniversary of the arrest 30 years ago of Toto Riina, Another organized crime boss thanked “the police forces and, in particular, the Carabineros, the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office and the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office for the capture of the greatest exponent of mafia crime.”

The capture of the mobster, with several life sentences for the 1993 Cosa Nostra attacks and numerous homicides, comes after the intensification of investigations carried out by Palermo prosecutors Maurizio de Lucia and deputy Paolo Guidoadd the media.

Messina Denarowho is 60 years old today, He must serve several life sentences for the 1993 bombings in Florence, Rome and Milan that killed ten people.

It is also considered the mastermind of the bombs that caused the death of the two anti-mafia magistrates in 1992 Paolo Borsellino and Giovani Falconehis wife, Francesca Morvillo, and eight escort agents.

In a last sentence, the role of Messina Denaro in the so-called strategy of attacks on Cosa Nostra to put pressure on the State in the 1990s and proves his participation both in those of 1992, claimed by “Totó” Riina, and in the bombs of 1993, commissioned by another mafia boss, Bernardo Provenzano.

It was just after these attacks when Messina Denaro disappeared and, after the arrest of Riina and Provenzano, it was considered that he was still pulling the strings of Cosa Nostra from an unknown whereabouts.

Source: Elcomercio