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This Is Why

How to catch a Mafia boss - by a woman who does it

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After 30 years on the run, infamous mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested. A suspected leader of Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia, convicted in absentia of multiple murders, he was finally detained by Italian armed forces whilst in a private clinic undergoing cancer treatment.

On the Sky News Daily podcast, host Niall Patterson talks to historian and author of Cosa Nostra, John Dickie, about the history and influence of Messina Denaro and the Sicilian mafia. He also speaks to anti-mafia prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti about her work and the consequences of going up against the mob.

Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Junior podcast producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Translation: Eva Oddi
Editor: Philly Beaumont

Transcript

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From the Godfather to the Sopranos,

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there is as much focus on the code of silence,

1:08.9

the trappings of the lifestyle, the food, the clothes,

1:13.1

those ridiculous nicknames, as ever there is on the crime. In reality, these individuals are

1:19.8

less diamonds in the rough, anti-heroes with well-concealed hearts, rather more brutal,

1:25.6

sadistic killers. Take, for example, Mateo Messina De Naro until recently

1:31.2

Italy's most wanted mafia crime boss. Convicted in sentence to life in prison for the murder in

1:37.5

1992 of two anti-mafia prosecutors, he also stands accused of ordering the murder of the 10-year-old son of a mafia

1:45.8

informant and faces an additional life sentence for bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan

1:52.2

that killed 10 people. Yet he still managed to evade capture for more than 30 years,

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