Italian authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a top boss of the 'Ndrangheta mafia, who had been featured on the police's list of most dangerous criminals and was on the run for after almost five years.
after almost five years on the run. He had been featured on the police's list of most dangerous criminals., after escaping an arrest warrant for homicide and mafia association issued by a magistrate in Calabria, in southern Italy. He was arrested Thursday morning in the northern port city of Genoa, Italy's carabinieri police said in a statement.
Local media said he had been leaving the city's cathedral when he was arrested and was carrying a fake ID.Bonavota is considered the brains of the 'Ndrangheta's Bonavota clan, which includes his two brothers and is based in the Sant'Onofrio area of the Calabrian province of Vibo Valentia. The clan also operates around Rome, and in the northern regions of Piedmont and Liguria, which includes Genoa.
Bonavota went on the run just after being sentenced by a lower court to life in prison for two murders committed in 2014 and 2004, of a lower-ranking member of his own clan, and a rival boss of a nearby clan.However, Bonavota was the last remaining fugitive suspect implicated in the massive case against the Vibo Valentia 'Ndrangheta that led to the 2021 maxi-trial against more than 300 alleged mafia members and their helpers.
According to eyewitnesses, when passers-by realized that security forces had apprehended the notorious crime figure, people cheered and applauded the police. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailed that arrest as"a great victory for the state that shows it never gives up in the face of the mafia."
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