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Factbox-Matteo Messina Denaro: what's next for the Italian mafia after boss's arrest?

Matteo Messina Denaro, a brutal Sicilian Mafia boss who was Italy's most wanted criminal before his capture last week, had been on the run for 30 years. Here are some key facts about his arrest and what it means:

Italian police find suspected ‘secret bunker’ of captured mafia boss

Italian police find suspected ‘secret bunker’ of captured mafia boss

‘Last godfather’ of Sicilian mafia Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested after 30 years on run

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Mafia boss Messina Denaro held in top security Italian prison

Mafia boss Messina Denaro held in top security Italian prison

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was being held on Wednesday in a high-security jail in central Italy, subject to special restrictions applied to the country's most dangerous prisoners.

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Matteo Messina Denaro: arrest of mafia boss after 30 years on the run is the end of an era – but not the end of the Cosa Nostra

Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the leaders of the Sicilian mafia, the Cosa Nostra, has finally been detained after 30 years on the run. His arrest came as around 100 police officers surrounded the private Maddalena clinic in Palermo where they had discovered he was receiving treatment.

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Captured mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was living in modest apartment

Italian investigators discover designer clothes and expensive shoes inside ‘normal’ two-storey building

The Guardian - UK

Brother of boy, 12, dissolved in acid by Mafia boss speaks out after his capture

Nicola Di Matteo's brother Giuseppe, 12, was kidnapped and killed in 1993 under the orders of Matteo Messina Denaro in an attempt to blackmail his father into not giving evidence against the mafia

Evil Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro's lair filled with designer clothes and perfumes

Matteo Messina Denaro, the last 'godfather' of Cosa Nostra, was arrested yesterday in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run. At the home where he spent his final months, officers found perfumes and designer clothes

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Sex pills, designer clothes found in mafia boss Messina Denaro's hideout

Sex pills, designer clothes found in mafia boss Messina Denaro's hideout

Perfumes, designer clothes and sex pills were found on Tuesday in an apartment which investigators believe was the last hideout of Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, judicial sources said, a day after the arrest of the fugitive.

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

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

Ruthless Italian Mafia boss caught after 30 years. Who is Matteo Messina Denaro?

Notorious accused Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested at a medical clinic in Sicily on Monday while he was undergoing treatment under an alias, Italian police said.

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Illness is what ultimately snared Italy's top Mafia fugitive

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.

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

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.

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

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

'Scouser lookalike' mafia boss finally arrested after 30 years on the run

'Scouser lookalike' mafia boss finally arrested after 30 years on the run

A Liverpool man's wife 'couldn't stop laughing' after he was mistakenly arrested due to his resemblance to the Sicilian crime lord

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Years of cat-and-mouse end as top mafioso cornered in Italian clinic

Italian investigators knew a lot of things about mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

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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

Arrest of 'last godfather' deals new blow to ailing Sicilian mafia

The arrest of Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro deals a powerful blow to the mythology of the Cosa Nostra, toppling a symbol of the group's resistance to police efforts to break up organised crime.

Evening Standard

Who is Matteo Messina Denaro? The notorious mafia boss captured in Sicily after 30 years on the run

The notorious mafia don is arrested at a health facility.

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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

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Matteo Messina Denaro: Italian mafia boss arrested in Sicily

Matteo Messina Denaro, a leader within Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia, has been linked to a string of murders.

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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…

Wanted Italian Mafia boss finally arrested after three decades on the run

The Sicilian Cosa Nostra Mafia's don Matteo Messina Denaro is believed to be responsible for dozens of murders.

Evening Standard

Italy’s most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested in Sicily

Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, was at a private clinic in Palermo at the time of the arrest

The Independent UK

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

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