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Police in Sicily, Italy, arrested a Cosa Nostra Mafia boss who had been on the run for about three decades, prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia announced Monday, according to CNN. Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive since 1993 and Italy’s most wanted man, was apprehended while receiving…
Here's professor anna sergi, an expert on the mafia. matteo messina denaro embodied the true identity of cosa nostra, the one that was, that reached its peak in the '90s but then eventually, it was also the demise of the organisation because of the choices that they made. but for everyone, the fact that he was so unreachable, that he had been on the run for 30 years, was actually something to be proud of, that the most important criminal organisation of italy historically, its head, impossible to catch boss was something that really forged the identity of cosa nostra. so now, even if the activ...
An expert on the mafia: matteo messina denaro embodied the true identity of cosa nostra, the one that was, that reached its peak in the �*90s but then eventually, it was also the demise of the organisation because of the choices that they made. but for everyone, the fact that he was so unreachable, that he had been on the run for 30 years, was actually something to be proud of, that the most important criminal organisation of italy historically, its head, impossible to catch boss was something that really forged the identity of cosa nostra. so now, even if the activities of the organisations...
In 1992, and a series of terrorist outrages on the italian mainland the following year, and any boss who can stay at large for that long... those events changed italian history and the fact that he could stay at large for so long was kind of an ongoing insult to the rule of law in sicily and a kind of advert for the power of the sicilian mafia. my fundamental takeaway from this is that it is yet another sign of the deep, deep trouble that the sicilian mafia is before today, the only known photos of messina denaro. nicknamed "diabolik" date back to the 1990s. he had been on the run since 1993. ...
Messina Denaro's arrest brings to a close the era of the "Cosa Nostra" Sicilian crime syndicate depicted in "The Godfather" movies.