Italy celebrates the arrest of the “capo of capos” and recalls that the fight against the mafia does not end

Relief in Italy following the arrest of the country’s most-wanted alleged mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro. However, the Italian prosecutor’s office has warned that the fight against organized crime is far from over. The investigations focus on the house where he was hiding, located in Campobello di Mazara in Sicily..

“We are especially proud this morning of the work carried out, after a very long and complicated investigation, a work carried out by all the police forces of the (Italian) State, because we have captured the last mass murderer of the period 1992-1993. It was a debt that the (Italian) republic owed to the victims of those years, and this debt has been settled, at least in part”, highlighted the chief prosecutor of Palermo, Maurizio de Lucia.

The prosecutor has pointed out that The investigations are now focused on “the protections” that he has had in his long clandestinity and with which he has managed to evade Justice for 30 years.

A period that ended this Monday after his arrest at a private hospital in Palermo where he went under a false identity to treat the cancer he had suffered for a year.

The leader of the carabineros, Alberto Arcidiacono, affirmed that the criminal “did not pretend to be someone else” because, on the other hand, “just looking at him there was little to verify”, given his great resemblance to the robot portraits that were made of him.

The “capo of capos” has already been sentenced in absentia for being the mastermind of dozens of murders, including that of two anti-mafia prosecutors.

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