Most wanted mafia don Matteo Messina Denaro ‘The Boss of Bosses’ who led clan that inspired The Godfather arrested

ONE of Italy’s most feared mobsters, and leader of the mafia clan that inspired The Godfather, has been arrested in a daring raid. Matteo Messina Denaro, who fronted up the notorious Sicilian “Cosa Nostra” group, was seized by cops after 30 years as Italy‘s most wanted mafia don. Italian police via APSicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested after 30 years[/caption] Denaro was head of the notorious Cosa Nostra clan of the mafiaRex Police say the 60-year-old, known as “The Boss of Bosses”, was taken during a visit to a private medical clinic in Sicily’s largest city Palermo. He is believed to be behind the murders of two anti-mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992. Denaro is also facing a life sentence for his role in bomb attacks which killed ten people in Florence, Milan, and Rome the following year. Last September, Italy’s Carabinieri police force claimed the mafia don was still in charge and issuing commands from his regional stronghold in the western Sicilian city of Trapani. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has thanked the police for the capture of the country’s most-wanted gangster. The recently-elected leader wrote on Twitter: “My warmest thanks, together with those of the whole government, go to the police forces, and in particular to the Ros dei Carabinieri, to the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office and to the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office for the capture of the most significant exponent of mafia crime.” She added: “The prevention and fight against mafia crime, as evidenced by the fact that the first measure of the Executive concerned the harsh penitentiary regime for mafiosi, will continue to be an absolute priority of this government.”