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Italy's most-wanted mafia boss arrested after 30-year hunt

Matteo Messina Denaro faces a life sentence for his role in bomb attacks in Italy's Florence, Rome and Milan which killed 10 people the following year.

January 16, 2023 / 16:49 IST
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Italy's top wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested in Palermo, in his native Sicily.
Italy's top wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested in Palermo, in his native Sicily.

Italy's Carabinieri police on Monday arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, the country's most wanted mafia boss who had been on the run for three decades.

Messina Denaro, who was detained in the Sicilian capital Palermo, is alleged to be a boss of Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia.

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He has been sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

He also faces a life sentence for his role in bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan in Italy which killed 10 people the following year.