December 04, 2018
Palermo Mafia boss Settimo Mineo arrested in crackdown on organised crime
Mafia godfather among 45 alleged mobsters held in Sicily
Italian police have arrested the suspected new head of the Sicilian mafia and 45 other alleged mobsters in a major blow to organised crime on the Mediterranean island, the government said on Tuesday.
“There is no more room for this type of scum in Italy,” the country’s deputy prime minister, Luigi Di Maio, wrote on Instagram.
The previous capo di capi (boss of bosses), Salvatore “Toto” Riina, died in prison last year after spending almost a quarter of a century behind bars for ordering dozens of murders, including those of two of Italy’s most celebrated anti-mob prosecutors.
Among those arrested on Tuesday was Settimo Mineo, an 80-year-old jeweller suspected of heading local mafia families in the Sicilian capital Palermo and of being promoted to lead the whole crime group in May, police said.
“The arrests ... represent one of the biggest blows inflicted on the mafia by the state. Mineo had been elected ‘heir’ of Toto Riina after his death,” Di Maio added.
A police source said Mineo was elected boss at a meeting of provincial leaders of the Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, on 29 May. It was believed to be the first such gathering of mob families for more than 25 years.
Once all-powerful on Sicily, the world’s most famous crime gang has been squeezed over the past two decades, with many bosses put behind bars, businesses sequestered and locals increasingly ready to defy it.
The meeting in May of the Cosa Nostra cupola, or hierarchy, was seen by investigators as a sign the group was looking to rebuild.
“With an extraordinary operation in the Palermo province, the police have dismantled Cosa Nostra’s new ‘cupola’,” the interior minister, Matteo Salvini, said on Twitter.
Mineo was sentenced to five years in jail for mafia-related crimes at the so-called “maxi-trial” that ran from 1986 to 1992 and was spearheaded by prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Both Falcone and Borsellino were murdered in 1992 on Riina’s orders after verdicts were delivered. Following their deaths, the state poured resources into the fight against the mob and ground down Cosa Nostra.
One prominent mafioso the police have been unable to capture is Matteo Messina Denaro, nicknamed “Diabolik”, who has been on the run since 1993 and comes from the province of Trapani in western Sicily. It was not clear if he attended the May meeting.
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