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Matteo Messina Denaro: how fast-living mafioso evaded police for 30 years

Sicilian mobster who boasted ‘I filled a cemetery by myself’ managed to stay hidden without going far from home

The Guardian - UK

Illness is what ultimately snared Italy's top Mafia fugitive

Failing health, more than anything else, is what brought to an end 30 years of life as a fugitive for Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy's most wanted man until his arrest on Monday.

Reuters

Messina Denaro was never 'sole' leader of Sicilian Mafia - prosecutor

Matteo Messina Denaro, the Italian mobster arrested after 30 years on the run, was "never" the sole leader of the Sicilian Mafia, the chief prosecutor of Palermo Maurizio de Lucia said on Monday.

Reuters

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Tipoff about medical care led to arrest of mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro

‘Last godfather’ was apprehended as he came out of the private health facility on outskirts of Palermo

The Guardian - UK

Matteo Messina Denaro: The last ‘godfather’ of the Cosa Nostra arrested after 30 years on the run

The notorious mafia boss – implicated by prosecutors in dozens of murders – is said to see himself as a philosopher and folk hero

The Independent UK

Stunning White Lotus villa can now be rented on Airbnb - but it'll cost you

The villa used in the filming of White Lotus season two is located in Palermo, Sicily and proudly boasts 20-acres of garden and a theme which will transport visitors back to the 1500s

Daily Mirror

Life of Mafia boss who boasted he killed so many people he 'filled cemetery by himself'

Messina Denaro was captured at a clinic in Palermo, Italy, where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, the head of the police force's special operations squad confirmed

Daily Mirror

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Italy Arrests Sicilian Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was captured at the clinic where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, said Carabinieri…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Italy arrests Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro

Italian paramilitary police say they have arrested convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro in a private clinic in Palermo

The Independent UK

Italy mafia boss arrested after 30 years on the run

Prosecutors consider Matteo Messina Denaro to be the countries most wanted crime boss – accusing him of being solely or jointly responsible for numerous murders

The Independent UK

Heritage arches and historic market buildings in Manchester to be transformed in £2.2m scheme

Developers are looking to Brooklyn, Paris and Palermo to inspire Manchester's Campfield tech hub

Manchester Evening News

The big picture: Bruno Barbey captures life on the road in 1960s Palermo

The Magnum photographer’s image of a family in Sicily recalls Fellini and Visconti in its romantic depiction of everyday Italian life

The Guardian - UK

How to spend a week in Sicily

€3 aperol spritzes, dangerously good gelato and dream interiors shopping — Meg Honigmann explores Palermo and beyond

Evening Standard

Girl, 4, forced to sail from Tunisia to Sicily on migrant boat without parents

Girl became separated from parents and disembarked on island of Lampedusa after 26 hours at sea

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A local’s guide to Palermo: sardines, spumante and spontaneous dancing

City food guide Marco Romeo on the sardines, spumante and street dancing that give the Sicilian capital its distinctive vibe

The Guardian - UK

Motherlands by Amaryllis Gacioppo review – a brilliant exploration of mixed heritage

The Australian writer and translator traces her ancestral footsteps across Europe and reflects on how we come to understand the past

Asharq Al-Awsat

Italy’s Oldest Student Graduates Again Aged 98

Giuseppe Paterno, who is 98, has become Italy's oldest graduate - again. Paterno has added a masters in history and philosophy from the University of Palermo to an initial degree in the same subjects he earned there two years ago. He passed the latest degree with top marks, again, his…

The Guardian - UK

A pilgrim’s (rather slow) progress on Sicily’s most recent long-distance trail

The Magna Via Francigena, from Palermo to Agrigento, became a pilgrimage in 2017 and locals are embracing the new visitors

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Flaming Close: Firefighters Soak Land To Save City From Wildfire

Firefighters staged a desperate stand against forest fires raging in Italy by soaking trees and grasslands to create a fire break.

France 24

Looking back at when Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra assassinated Italian judges

Created on the island of Sicily in the mid-19th century, Cosa Nostra soon became one of the most powerful branches of the Italian mafia. In 1986, the Italian justice system launched a counter-offensive, with the Palermo prosecutor's office leading the charge. Judge Giovanni Falcone became a symbol of the fight…

Reuters

Politicians' mafia past stirs anger ahead of Sicily election

Upcoming mayoral elections in the Sicilian capital of Palermo are being overshadowed by the involvement in the campaign of two prominent politicians who have spent time in jail for mafia-related crimes.

Bangkok Post

Italy marks 30th anniversary of murder of anti-mafia judge Falcone

ROME: Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island.

The Independent UK

Letizia Battaglia: Photographer who documented Mafia carnage

Well aware she was putting her life on the line, Battaglia focused her lens on the bloody feuds between the various crime families in Sicily

The Independent UK

Letizia Battaglia, who shot life and death in Palermo, dies

Letizia Battaglia, an Italian photographer who documented the arrests of Mafia bosses and the bodies of their victims, has died in her native Sicilian city of Palermo

Reuters

Letizia Battaglia, pioneer photographer who defied the Mafia, dead at 87

Letizia Battaglia, a world-renowned photographer whose courageous work documenting the Mafia's stranglehold on her native Sicily was at once chilling and poignant, has died. She was 87.

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