People on the streets cheer as Italy's most-wanted mafia boss is arrested – video report

Matteo Messina Denaro, the last 'godfather' of the Sicilian mafia and one of the world’s most-wanted criminals, has been arrested in Palermo after 30 years on the run. The 60-year-old was apprehended in a private clinic in the Sicilian city. The mobster, nicknamed Diabolik or U Siccu (the skinny one), was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses, after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. According to mafia informers and prosecutors, he holds the key to some of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by the Sicilian mafia. In 2002, he was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life in jail for having personally killed or ordered the murder of dozens of people