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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lorenzo Tondo

Captured mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was living in modest apartment

Carabinieri police stand guard near Denaro’s apartment in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara
Carabinieri police stand guard near Denaro’s apartment in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara. Photograph: Antonio Parrinello/Reuters

The mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the world’s most-wanted criminals who had spent 30 years on the run, lived in a modest apartment in western Sicily in his final months as a free man, Italian investigators said.

Denaro, 60, who was apprehended as he came out of a well-known private clinic in Palermo, lived in a small apartment inside a two-storey yellow building in the centre of the town of Campobello di Mazara, in the province of Trapani, in the heart of his territory.

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