Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is being held in Costarelle, a maximum security jail in central Italy, designed to prevent suspects from running criminal groups behind bars with video surveillance at all times
on Monday after 30 years on the run, told prison guards when he was admitted to the Costarelle prison close to the city of L'Aquila, Italian media reported.
Messina Denaro had been sentenced in absentia to multiple life terms for an array of crimes, including for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino -- killings that shocked the nation and sparked a crackdown on Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia. He will be one of around 160 prisoners in the Costarelle, which opened in the 1990s and is the largest of Italy's maximum security jails. It has previously housed mobsters including Raffaele Cutolo and Leoluca Bagarella.in clothes and cars, will be subject to the "41 bis" rules, a strict isolation regime designed to try to prevent suspects from running criminal groups from behind bars.
A general view shows the prison where Italy's most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is detained, in L'Aquila, Italy, January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Gabriele Pileri
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