Italy arrests No 1 fugitive Mafia boss

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run.

A young man when he went into hiding, he is now 60. Messina Denaro, who had a power base in the port city of Trapani, in western Sicily, was considered Sicily’s Cosa Nostra top boss even while a fugitive.He was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture. He tried in absentia and convicted of dozens of murders, faces multiple life sentences.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni tweeted that Messina Denaro's capture is a “great victory of the state, which shows that it doesn't surrender in the face of the Mafia.”