Wow..

Exactly my reaction when i saw news this morning , first thing i did was come here and post it. Unreal

Wow! after all these years

Wonder how did this happen , he had protection of some of the most powerful people in Italy.

To the day exactly 30 years after Riina's arrest they waited for this moment.

Riina got arrested on 15 January 1993,almost.Wonder if they really waited for this moment.

He does resemble to age progression photo.

Yes they only had old pictures and some pentiti describing how he now looked.

Good photo of his capture,

You can't hide in Sicily for 30 years , its a small island , someone decided its his time probably , wonder if someone will replace him and will Palermo take back control of mafia , this is end of Corleonesi era.

The Corleonesi era ended with Provenzano arrest in 2006. In Palermo the families with the return of the scappati in the 1980s tried to rebuilt a Cosa Nostra Commision but was all arrested before can do it.

Very similar to the arrest of Toto Riina. Riina's family always suspected that Provenzano gave him up to very high government people.

Wow! Now watch everyone say that this is the end of the Mafia, the same thing they said after the arrest of Salvatore Riina and again after the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano. It never fails. Though I do wonder if he's the last of the great fugitives. I don't think we'll be seeing many more on the run for several decades at a time.

police also nabbed his driver Giovanni Luppino

Messina Denaro's arrest: Meloni hails victory of the State
Fight against the mafia will continue unabated says premier

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 16 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday hailed the arrest of Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro as a "great victory for the State".
Noting that it happened the day after the anniversary of late Cosa Nostra boss-of.bosses Totò Riina's arrest in 1993, she said it shows that the State "does not give up in the face of the Mafia".
"My warmest thanks and those of the entire government go to the police forces, in particular to the Carabinieri Ros section, the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office, and the Palermo Prosecutor's Office, for the capture of the most significant figure in the mafia," she added.
"The government will make sure that the fight against mafia crime continues without respite, as demonstrated by the fact that this executive's first measure - the defence of the 'carcere ostativo' (tough prison regime for mafia convicts) - concerned precisely this matter." (ANSA).

Messina Denaro, the women and loves of the boss
Andrea, Francesca, Maria: the conquests of the play boy mafia boss

By Franco Nicastro
January 16, 2023
10:21am
NEWS

At first it was Andrea, a young Austrian who had driven him crazy.

Then Francesca arrived, who also gave Matteo Messina Denaro a daughter.

And between one story and another in the godfather's life, Maria broke in and also got a sentence for aiding and abetting him for having hosted and accompanied him during his fugitive. The presence of so many women already traces the profile of a "modern" boss who, at least in private life, has marked a strong discontinuity with the system of family and sentimental values ??of the traditional mafia. Of all the women who have been attributed to him, Maria Mesi is the one who perhaps counted the most in Messina Denaro's life.

Certainly the one that has not made him lack passionate attestations of love together with the tender attentions of a caring companion. "You are the most beautiful thing there is" is the message that he had entrusted to one of the "pizzini", intercepted by investigators. Maria was also thinking about Matteo's innocent pastimes with Nintendo video games, still of the first generation. Attentions that intertwined with the confidences of two lovers.

From the correspondence that came out in the house of Filippo Guttadauro, brother-in-law and liaison between the fugitive boss and his world, the intimate thoughts of a clandestine couple have resurfaced. Maria signed herself and called herself Mari or Mariella. "I would have liked to have known you since I was a child and grow up with you, surely I would have combined all the colors with you because as a child I was a tomboy", she wrote to him. As she grew up, she no longer thought about pranks. She shared with Diabolik the hardships of a menage with little intimacy but also the rare moments of escape and holidays. Like the one in August 1995 in a residence made available by the boss Vito Mazzara (the instigator of the killing of Mauro Rostagno) in San Vito Lo Capo, between the sandy beach,

In this environment, which was that of his criminal reign, Matteo Messina Denaro could move with fearless security because he was surrounded by trusted friends and supporters. Only one caution to Vincenzo Sinacori, who later became repentant, remained in his memory. The godfather used to call his wife by another name, Tecla. More risky because faced without any protective net the holiday in Greece the year before, which the boss had organized under the false name of Matteo Cracolici and always with his partner. Before Mariella conquered him, Diabolik's fame as a fatal man had impressed Andrea Hasleher, a young and beautiful Austrian who worked in a hotel in Selinunte. Matteo Messina Denaro, not yet a Diabolik but already in his career, attended the hotel and the woman who at one point moved into a villa in Triscina rented by the boss. The sudden change had an explanation: the hotel manager, Nicola Consales, had fallen in love with her, who in 1991 was killed in Palermo with two point-blank shots after having confided to his collaborators that he would soon have "these four mafiosos" kicked out. of Matthew's friends. The chronicles of that tragic love story tell that, after the crime, Messina Denaro went to visit his friend in Austria. And they don't add anything else because in the meantime another story was born with Francesca Alagna, sister of the trusted accountant of the former owner of Valtur, Carmelo Patti, suspected of being a figurehead of her godfather. From the relationship with Francesca Alagna in 1996 Messina Denaro had a daughter Lorenza. Never known, he confided to a friend, even if the woman and the girl were welcomed from the first moment at the boss's mother's house in Castelvetrano. They left only in 2013. It has never been clarified whether it was an act of rebellion by the girl or, as appears more probable, a choice caused by the fact that mother and daughter were no longer able to live in a house besieged by the police and carabinieri. In 2021 Lorenza had a child who is not called Matteo like her grandfather. (HANDLE).

It is indeed bizarre - as in they waited it out. Arrested in a hospital - to the best of my knowledge Provenzano - during treatment - almost got pinched in a hospital in Marseille. Seems like the state is sending a message to Cosa Nostra with this date (15/01/1993). I can't really remember why Provenzano went to Marseille but I think it was for something specific they couldn't treat him for in Italy. At a certain point (i guess 25 years ago) new hospital equipment (supposedly top level at that time) was sent to Sicily. Provenzano created his own companies for this to skim these profits - The irony they arrest Denaro in a hospital in Palermo

wow ! !

Too old for this sh*t? Italian police arrest Sicilian Mafia’s boss of bosses Matteo Messina Denaro https://gangstersinc.org/blog/too-old-for-this-sh-t-italian-police-arrest-sicilian-mafia-s-boss

So in other words they could've arrested him sooner but waited for this day. They're really no different from the Mafia, the State just wants to be the top dog.

He was treated in that clinic for over a year under a false name Andrea Bonafede, when approached by police he said "My name is Matteo Messina Denaro". Looks like he has cancer.

He had having treatment at the clinic, which is called 'La Maddalena', for over a year, sources said.

Wonder how much he has left.

Yep last year sources said he was probably sick.

Clinic is getting review bombed on Google.

Cheering crowd sees Mafia boss arrested in Sicily

https://www.telegraaf.nl/video/1395168872/juichende-menigte-ziet-arrestatie-maffiabaas-op-sicilie

Damn this is huge! Wonder who gave him up.