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Matteo Messina Denaro: Italian mafia boss arrested in Sicily

Italian police have arrested the country’s most wanted mafia boss, who had been on the run for 30 years. Prosecutors say Matteo Messina Denaro is a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia. Police on Monday morning swooped in on a private hospital in the Sicilian capital Palermo, where the 60-year-old was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, to make the arrest. Messina Denaro 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 involvement in bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan the following year, which killed […]

Italy: ‘Cornerstone’ mafia trial begins with hundreds in dock

0 In Italy, the trial of more than 350 suspected members and associates of the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate got under way. The charges include murder, extortion, money laundering and drug trafficking. Most of the accused are appearing on video link from their jail cells. Al Jazeera’s Stefanie Dekker rome from Rome, Italy. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Italy #Ndrangheta #Mafia