Four Italians among 57 most wanted Europeans Giovanni Motisi, Domenico Bellantoni, Vincenzo Parisi and Renato Cinquegranella are on the 'most wanted' list. One is considered the head of Cosa Nostra after the arrest of Messina Denaro. "They have blood on their hands"
Among our fellow countrymen, the most well-known name is that of Giovanni Motisi from Palermo, 66 years old on January 1, missing since 1998. Known by the nickname 'u pacchiuni, the fat one, a leading member of Cosa Nostra, after the capture of Matteo Messina Denaro he is considered by many to be the new head of the organization. A trusted killer of Totò Riina, according to the statements of a repentant, accused of murder and massacre, he has a life sentence to serve. In 1999, during the search of his villa in Palermo, a large correspondence between him and his wife came to light, notes delivered by trusted 'postmen' together with clothes and gifts. And it is from the same year that he appeared for the last time in Sicily, at his daughter's birthday party: in the photos found several years later, the walls covered with white sheets stand out so as not to make the place recognizable. Since then, nothing or almost nothing to fuel the suspicion - recurrent in large fugitives - that Motisi may be dead. The other hypothesis is that he sought, and found, refuge in France. To facilitate the search, the Police released a new identikit in April, the result of reworking the physiognomy of the face with the 'Age progression' system.
Domenico Bellantoni, 80 years old, known as Mburia, also sentenced to life imprisonment, is a 'ndrangheta killer , affiliated with the Piromalli clan from Reggio Calabria, who has been on the run since 1971. Europol describes him as "a dangerous and potentially armed individual". His CV includes, among other things, the attempted murder by gunshots of Rocco Malvaso and the murder of Francesco Tocco. Taking advantage of his criminal profile, he is also said to have induced a minor to prostitute herself in Rosarno.
Vincenzo Parisi, 75, also has a life sentence to serve. He is linked to the 'Foggia mafia', known for its ruthlessness: with two accomplices, he lured Filippo Russo and Franco Cavazzuti into a trap and killed them "for trivial reasons" with a .38 caliber pistol. According to Europol, he used a stolen and falsified identity card to escape detection and arrest.
Renato Cinquegranella , a 75-year-old Neapolitan, has practically disappeared since 2002. Wanted for mafia-style criminal association, complicity in murder, extortion and other charges, he was originally linked to the 'Nuova famiglia', historic rivals of Raffaele Cutolo's Nuova camorra organizzati: an old grainy black and white photo of him remains in the archives, with advanced baldness, glasses, a black moustache and a gaze fixed on the lens. A face like many others, yet his name appears in the judicial chronicles of two of the crimes that most shook Naples: the murder of Giacomo Frattini, alias Bambulella, a soldier of the Nco, tortured, killed and dismembered in January 1982, and the massacre of the head of the Mobile Antonio Ammaturo and his driver, Pasquale Paola, 'signed' in July of the same year by the Red Brigades. Episode that confirmed the existence of a 'wicked pact' between terrorists and the Camorra area bosses in central Naples. Since December 2018, international searches have been launched, so far without results. The Court of Cassation confirmed his life sentence in May 2014.
