He wore a luxury watch but allowed himself to be driven around in a small Fiat. After the arrest of mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, the Italians are primarily concerned with the question of how he was able to go into hiding for 30 years.
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Andrea Bachstein
“You know my name,” he replied when asked his name, yes, he was Matteo Messina Denaro. This is reported by the Carabinieri Colonel Lucio Arcidiacono, head of the 100-man special command of the Carabinieri, from the moment on Monday morning, which is already considered historic in the fight against the Mafia. At nine o’clock on Monday, Arcidiacono arrested Italy’s most wanted mafioso in the pouring rain on a small street in Palermo. The Cosa Nostra boss, who has been on the run for three decades, had just left the La Maddalena clinic, which specializes in cancer therapy, and probably wanted to go to a bar.