How Italy’s most wanted ‘Godfather’ was captured after 30 years on the run: Inside Matteo Messina Denaro’s arrest as cops swarm medical clinic during cancer check then mobster flees on foot to nearby bar

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By RACHAEL BUNYAN and NICK PISA FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 04:16 EST, 16 January 2023 | UPDATED: 11:47 EST, 16 January 2023

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s 30-year bid to evade justice came to a dramatic end today after the Italian ‘Godfather’ was finally arrested – but not without one last attempt to outrun the law.

Messina Denaro, head of the notorious Cosa Nostra gang and nicknamed ‘The Devil’ following a string of brutal murders, was captured when armed police swarmed a private medical facility in Palermo, Sicily, where he was undergoing treatment.

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