Italian Mafia Boss, Nation’s Most Wanted Man, Arrested After Evading Police For 30 Years

A Mafia boss considered the most wanted man in Italy —who has been accused of involvement in the strangling of a 12-year-old boy and the dissolving of his body in a vat of acid among other crimes — was finally arrested.

Matteo Messina Denaro, nicknamed “The Devil,” At a hospital he was having a colon cancer screening, he was taken into custody and taken to a secure location. Messina denaro was accused of numerous murders including the strangulation and killing of a pregnant lady.

“A great victory for the state that shows it never gives up in the face of the mafia,” Conservative Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated.

“It is a victory for all the police forces that have worked together over these long years to bring the dangerous fugitive to justice,” Italy’s Chief of Police, Lamberto Giannini, echoed.

“He’d been coming here on and off for about a year,” A hospital employee preferred to remain anonymous. The Daily Mail reported. “He’d had an operation a few months ago and was back for more tests and chemotherapy. When I turned up for work this morning at 6 a.m. it was all quiet and then he arrived to do his Covid test. A few minutes later a police officer wearing full body armor as if he was going to war came in and said he was looking for a patient.”

“He said to remain calm and that armed officers were on every floor of the clinic,” The employee continued. “We had no idea who he was or what his background was. The guy actually managed to get out and ran into a local bar but they tracked him down and that’s when all hell broke loose.”

Messina Denaro was given a life sentence in absentia for complicity with the murders by anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, in 1992. He has also been accused in other cases of complicity with bomb attacks in Milan, Rome, and Florence that killed ten people in 1993. In the same year, he is alleged to have helped to supervise Giuseppe Di Matteo’s kidnapping in order to prevent his father from a. The boy was kept in custody for two years before he was reportedly strangled and then his body was disintegrated in acid.

Messina Denaro had Sicilian collaborators who helped him to avoid arrest over the years. The New York Times noted.

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