A few days ago, a fan British of Formula 1 was mistaken for a dangerous leader of the ‘Sicilian mafia’ and was mistakenly arrested in Holland.
Police in the Dutch city of The Hague believed that a 54-year-old man, identified as Mark L., was none other than Matteo Messina Denaro, the head of the organization. mafia from Italian on ‘Cosa Nostra’.
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According to a report by Mark’s lawyer in ‘The Washington Post’, “the Briton was having lunch with his son at a restaurant in the western town of Netherlands, Located on the North Sea coast, when it was intercepted by heavily armed troops. “
Messina money, The real one, is 59 years old and has been fleeing the Italian authorities since 1993. He became known internationally after appearing in ‘World’s Most Wanted’, a 2020 Netflix documentary series that exposes the major world fugitives.
However, the man who arrested the police Dutch he is far from a wanted criminal on at least two continents. the humble Brand L. was born and raised in England and in fact has a strong English tone, associated with the city of Liverpool. He has nothing of Italian.
This particularity does not go unnoticed in the defense of Mark L., as the criminal who seeks the Europol he only speaks Italian.
Faced with the fact, Mark L. was “more than surprised, one might say” by the reason for his arrest, as described by Leon van Kleef, his lawyer.
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“It was a matter of time before the situation was resolved,” he added.
For now, Dutch prosecutors and Italians have made no further comments regarding the gruesome police mistake that occurred last Wednesday.
Mateu Messina Denaro is the leader of the southern Italian mafia organization ‘Cosa Nostra’.
Messina Denaro has a life sentence after being found guilty of several murders. called “Evil”, In honor of the villain of an Italian police comic, is known to drive sports at full speed and use luxury clothing, as described on more than one occasion by the magazine ‘Time’.
It is believed that the hood of ‘Cosa Nostra’ he has been behind numerous murders, including bombings of judges carrying investigations against him in Florence, Rome and Milan in the early 1990s.
One of his infamous attacks it cost the lives of at least ten people.
In 1993, Messina Denaro allegedly helped organize the kidnapping of a 12-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo. Your goal? Silence the father of the minor, who was about to testify against him.
Little Di Matteo died and disappeared.
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As indicated by attorney van Kleef, as for Mark L., he was released from the prison of maximum security to which he had been transferred on Saturday, three days after his arrest.
Who would have thought that, in order to go to a ‘car party’, he was about to receive the sentence of a bloodthirsty mafia.
And all for a light one error of calculation.
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* With information from La Nación / Argentina (GDA)