Matteo Messina Denaro, also known as Diabolik, is a Sicilian Mafia boss. He was considered to be one of the new leaders of the Sicilian mob after the arrests of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006 and Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007.
Is Matteo Messina Denaro still alive?
Matteo Messina Denaro is still alive. He is also 60 years as of January 2023. The mafia boss has been on the run for the past 30 years and is currently in the grips of the Italian police. Matteo will be facing judgment for the crimes he has committed over the years.
With the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017, Messina Denaro was seen as the unchallenged boss of all bosses within the Mafia. After 30 years on the run, he was arrested on 16 January 2023 in a private clinic in Sicily’s capital, Palermo.
Italian officials, including the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who flew to Sicily to congratulate local law enforcement, immediately heralded the arrest as proof that justice, even if slow, would ultimately catch up with the country’s mobsters.