Italy catches Messina Denaro, mafia boss who was on run for 30 years
Italy catches Mafia boss Messina Denaro after 30 years on the run. Famous criminals get caught while attending their doctor. But being a crime person he lived a rather lavish life in disguise as well.
Italy's most wanted mobster was heading to a cafe outside a private Sicilian clinic when a policeman approached him and asked him his name. He did not lie. He merely looked up and said: "You know who I am. I am Matteo Messina Denaro." Until that moment, the armed forces could not be sure the man really was the Mafia "boss of all bosses", who they had been hunting for three decades.
He checked in for an appointment at the clinic under the name of Andrea Bonafede. But after years of painstaking research, and only a computerized image to go on. Italy's Carabinieri military police were c...