[v1r]

"Matteo Messina Denaro, the last “godfather” of the Sicilian mafia and one of the world’s most-wanted criminals, has been arrested in Palermo after 30 years on the run.

Denaro, 60, who has been in hiding since 1993, was apprehended in a private clinic in the Sicilian city, where, according to sources, he had been living for about a year under the false name of “Andrea Bonafede”.

He was taken away at about 9.35am to the applause of other patients in the clinic and moved to the San Lorenzo barracks in the Sicilian capital. According to police sources, Denaro tried to escape from the clinic when he saw police arriving but once surrounded he did not put up resistance.

The mobster was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses, after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017.

Nicknamed Diabolik or U Siccu (the skinny one), Denaro was born in Castelvetrano, Sicily, in 1962. His father was a powerful Cosa Nostra boss, and Denaro thrived in the family business, building an illicit multibillion euro empire in the waste, wind energy and retail sectors.

According to mafia informers and prosecutors, he holds the key to some of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by the Sicilian mafia, including the bomb attacks that killed the legendary anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. In 2002, he was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in jail for having personally killed or ordered the murder of dozens of people."

[Mr.NoCredit]

What a shitty existence to be hiding for that many years… always looking over your shoulder expecting the worst at any given moment…

Eventually it happens if they want you bad enough…

[kellyhound]

Cosa Nostra boss dubbed The Devil 'murdered 50 including rival's pregnant girlfriend, top prosecutors and boy dissolved in acid' - and boasted he could 'fill a cemetery' with victims.

[Pyramid_Head]

Running for 30 years is wild but at least they caught him.

[SpaniardPrince]

I watched a documentary about the mafia in Italy yesterday and wake up to this news.