{"id":1808144,"date":"2023-01-17T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808144"},"modified":"2023-01-17T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T15:10:00","slug":"sicilian-mafia-dealt-a-new-blow-with-arrest-of-last-godfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sicilian-mafia-dealt-a-new-blow-with-arrest-of-last-godfather\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicilian Mafia Dealt a New Blow With Arrest of \u201cLast Godfather\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsicilian-mafia-dealt-a-new-blow-with-arrest-of-last-godfather%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>ROME \u2014 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\u2019s resistance to police efforts to break up organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>Messina Denaro, 60, was Italy\u2019s most wanted mafia boss and had been on the run for three decades. He was sentenced to a life sentence in absentia for his role as a murderer in 1992 of Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia lawyers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>His arrest comes nearly 30 years after Salvatore was captured by police \u201cToto\u201d Riina, Cosa Nostra\u2019s biggest figure of the 20th century, and marks the last step in efforts to dismantle the group\u2019s historical clan leadership.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Experts describe Cosa Nostra as a movie star whose fame was amplified through movies like \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d An ailing crime syndicate facing many difficulties, including competition in highly lucrative drugs markets.<\/p>\n<p>Cosa Nostra has retained control over its Sicilian territory but is unable to penetrate the wider economy. It has been replaced by Calabrian groups. \u2018Ndrangheta in the drugs trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessina Denaro was the last godfather, he represented all the secrets of Cosa Nostra. It is the end of a myth and the organization will have to cope with this,\u201d said Anna Sergi, an expert in organized crime at England\u2019s Essex University.<\/p>\n<p>Sergi stated that it wasn&#8217;t clear who would replace Messina denaro in a mafia with more factionalized elements.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIf Cosa Nostra wants to rebuild the leadership it had in the past it needs directives, but there are no big chiefs anymore,\u201d Sergi spoke to Reuters and said that the group would like to attempt to establish connections with American clans.<\/p>\n<p>SHEDDING LUCK ON MASSACRES<\/p>\n<p>Messina Denaro was among the masterminds of Cosa Nostra\u2019s bombing strategy of the early 1990s which triggered national outrage and forced politicians to act, introducing waves of anti-mafia laws and making hundreds of arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat \u2018declaration of war\u2019 The state was certainly weaker when it encouraged other groups like the \u2018Ndrangheta,\u201d said Federico Cafiero De Raho, a former national anti-mafia prosecutor and a lawmaker with the opposition 5-Star Movement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Any revelation from Messina Denaro on the group\u2019s activities \u2013 including 1993 bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan which killed 10 people \u2013 could be a further major development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to all knowledge, he had a role in the bombings and further developments are possible,\u201d said Gian Carlo Caselli, who served as chief prosecutor in Palermo at the time of Riina\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Riina Provenzano and Bernardo Provenzano are the Corleonesi clan leaders. However, they refused to speak to investigators after their arrest. Other important members of Corleonesi did not break the code.<\/p>\n<p>Federico Varese, professor of Criminology at Oxford University, said the fact that Messina Denaro \u2013 a native of a town in western Sicily \u2013 had been arrested in the island\u2019s capital of Palermo says much about how Cosa Nostra still works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMafias are really not global, fluid,\u201d He spoke to Reuters. \u201cOn the contrary, they are very rooted in their territory and fugitives who want to maintain some sort of control and role in the organization hang around the place where they operate.\u201d (Reporting by Angelo Amante. Additional reporting by Alvise Armeniallini. Editing by Nick Macfie.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content ROME \u2014 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\u2019s resistance to police efforts to break up organized crime. 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