Matteo Messina Denaro was only caught several months ago after decades on the run.
A photo reproduction of a computer-generated image released by Italian police of mafia boss contender Matteo Messina Denaro
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the January 15 1993 capture of the mafia’s “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.While a fugitive, he was tried in absentia and convicted of dozens of murders, including helping to plan, along with other Cosa Nostra bosses, a pair of 1992 bombings which killed Italy’s leading anti-mafia prosecutors — Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
His silence hewed to the examples of Riina and of the Sicilian Mafia’s other top boss, Bernardo Provenzano, who was caught in a farmhouse in Corleone, Sicily, in 2006, after 37 years in hiding — the longest time on the run for a mafia boss.
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