Book him Dano. I remember when those bombings were going on over there.
Posted on 01/16/2023 1:21:29 PM PST by csvset
A former trigger man who once reportedly boasted he could "fill a cemetery" with his victims, the 60-year-old Messina Denaro is believed to have become the mafia's "boss of bosses" following the death of Salvatore "The Beast" Riina in November 2017. Messina Denaro was detained at a private clinic in Palermo, where he was undergoing treatment for an unspeci fied illness, the Carabinieri's commander Pasquale Angelosanto told reporters.
A photograph released by police showed Messina Denaro in the back seat of a vehicle, wearing a cream hat, sunglasses and a brown leather jacket with a cream sheepskin lining. Before that, the only known photo of him dated back to the early 1990s.
He had been on the run since 1993. Messina Denaro was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said his arrest in his native Sicily was a "great victory" for the state in its war against organised crime. The mafia boss has been sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
He also faces a life sentence for his role in bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan, which killed 10 people the following year. In 2015, investigators discovered that he was communicating with his closest collaborators via the pizzini system, whereby tiny, folded paper notes were left under a rock at a farm in Sicily.
Police said in September 2022 that he was still able to issue commands in the area around the western Sicilian city of Trapani, his regional stronghold, despite his long disappearance.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Book him Dano. I remember when those bombings were going on over there.
Don't fall for that ruse Italy.
"My father's name was Antonio Andolini... and this is for you"
MIGA
"Wait a minute. You guys are on my payroll. Get me outta here right away..."
He aint gonna last long.
They’ll most likely get him along with the prosecutors.
Meanwhile the head of the Xiden crime family continues to walk free.
Good one!
There's a cottage industry in Europe of stealing art that's too famous to be resold. The thieves either sell it to or are contracted to mobsters who want the art as leverage for when they finally get arrested.
BBC art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon discussed this at some length in his 2018 documentary, "Stealing van Gogh." Italy, it seems, has a clause in their legal code that provides for a reduced sentence if you return some of your ill-gotten gains. So Italian mobsters in particular are keen to buy art that's too famous to ever re-sell because in Italia nothing gets such a sizable reduction as a returned priceless master-work or art.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pqx4r
Interesting, a insurance policy of sorts. He was killing judges and prosecutors, deals might not be forthcoming.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.