The mafia makes its presence felt at the Venice Film Festival this year, with a film inspired by boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who died last year after three decades on the lam. That long period as a fugitive — aided by family, loyalists and likely even more powerful political forces — is “a black page in the history of Italy”, …
Matteo Messina Denaro, the mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died Monday in an Italian hospital. Matteo Messina Denaro, the convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died Monday in a hospital ward, several months after being captured as Italy’s No. Top Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro sits in a car with …
A 54-year-old Formula 1 fan from Liverpool was arrested by the police in the Netherlands’s city, The Hague after he was mistaken for a mafia boss. According to the BBC, the Police believed that the British man, Mark L, was the Sicilian crime lord Matteo Messina Denaro, and therefore, he was blindfolded and arrested by officers in The Hague on …
