Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss arrested after 30 years on the run

The World

After eluding authorities for decades, Matteo Messina Denaro was captured at a hospital by Italian police today in Palermo, Sicily. He was convicted in absentia in 1992 for murder and other crimes. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Sicily to congratulate police and prosecutors. “We didn’t win the war, we didn’t defeat the mafia, but this was a fundamental battle to win,” Meloni told reporters. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry discusses the latest with The World’s host Marco Werman.

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