Matteo Messina Denaro, a brutal Sicilian Mafia boss who was Italy’s most wanted criminal before his capture, had been on the run for 30 years. | Reuters
How did Messina Denaro avoid arrest for so long?
“I have always believed a Masonic network protected him all over the world,” Teresa Principato told La Repubblica newspaper, saying she had found evidence that he spent time in Spain, Venezuela and Britain, as well as Sicily. Messina Denaro was eventually caught outside a clinic in Palermo after police discovered he was sick with cancer.Experts describe Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, its fame amplified by movies such as “The Godfather”, as an ailing crime group facing several difficulties including competition in the highly lucrative drugs market.
Alfonso Sabella, a former anti-Mafia magistrate, said Cosa Nostra is now only Italy’s third-largest criminal group, behind the ‘Ndrangheta and the mob centered around the city of Foggia in the south-east.Messina Denaro held sway in his home province of Trapani in western Sicily, but Palermo Chief Prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said he never became the “sole” leader of Cosa Nostra.
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