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Newshour: 16/01/2023 14:06 GMT: Italy’s most wanted Mafia boss arrested

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Italy’s most wanted Mafia boss arrested

16/01/2023 14:06 GMT

16/01/2023 14:06 GMT: Italy’s most wanted Mafia boss arrested

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Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested

Italy's most wanted Mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been arrested in Sicily after thirty years on the run. Over a hundred members of the security forces took part in his arrest at a private clinic in the city of Palermo. Messina Denaro has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in the murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. 

Also in the programme: German Defence Minister resigns; and Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida passes away. 

(Photo: A screengrab taken from a video shows Matteo Messina Denaro the country's most wanted mafia boss being escorted out of a Carabinieri police station after he was arrested in Palermo, Italy. CREDIT: Carabinieri/Handout via REUTERS.)

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