The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said Monday that the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, considered the head of Cosa Nostra, in Sicily, and who was a fugitive for more than 30 years, reveals that the “State does not surrender to the mafia”.
“A great victory for the state, which shows that it does not surrender to the mafia,” Meloni said shortly after the arrest of Messina Denaro was reported in Italy at a clinic in Parlermo, the Sicilian capital, where she was receiving medical treatment. .
Meloni noted that the arrest came a day after the arrest of Totò Riina, another Sicilian organized crime boss, was announced 30 years ago.
The head of state thanked “the police forces and in particular the Carabineros, the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office and the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office for the capture of the greatest exponent of mafia crime.”
“The Government guarantees that the fight against mafia crime will continue without truce, as demonstrated by the first measure of this Executive: the defense of life imprisonment without benefits,” he added.
The capture of the mafia boss, sentenced (in absentia) to several life sentences for the Cosa Nostra attacks in 1993 and several homicides, occurs after the intensification of the investigations carried out by the Palermo prosecutors, Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido, reports the Italian press.
Messina Denaro, 60, must serve several sentences for the 1993 attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan in which a total of 10 people died.
Denaro is also pointed out by Italian justice as the “mastermind” of the bomb attack that killed the anti-mafia magistrates in 1992 Paolo Borsellino and Giovani Falcone and their wife, Francesca Morvillo, as well as the eight agents who made up the escort .
The last sentence refers to the role of Messina Denaro in the “Cosa Nostra attack strategy” to put pressure on the State in the 1990s and proves the direct participation of the mafioso in the 1992 attacks, claimed by Totò Riina, and in Bernado’s 1993 gold attacks. Provenzano, another boss of the Sicilian mafia.
After the 1993 attacks, Messina Denaro disappeared and, after the arrest of Riina and Provenzano, it was considered that he was running Cosa Nostra from an unknown location.
Source: TSF
