2023-09-25 02:39:43
Famous Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, captured in January after three decades on the run, died in hospital in central Italy, the ANSA news agency reported Monday. The 61-year-old man suffered from colon cancer.
Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested at a clinic in Palermo in January, where he was being treated, under an assumed name, for his cancer.
>> Watch the 7:30 p.m. report on his arrest: Italian police arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the leaders of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia / 7:30 p.m. / 2 min. / January 16, 2023
Born in April 1962 near Trapani in Sicily, he was number one on the Italian Interior Ministry’s list of the six most wanted criminals in Italy.
Heir to the bygone era of the “great historical power of Cosa Nostra”, “he is the last, the most resilient, the ‘purest’ Sicilian mafioso who remained”, indicated the criminologist Anna Sergi, specialist in the mafias.
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