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Italy arrests senior mafia boss | Italy arrests senior mafia boss |
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Italian police have arrested the reputed new boss of the Sicilian Mafia. | Italian police have arrested the reputed new boss of the Sicilian Mafia. |
Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who had been on the run for 20 years, was apprehended along with his son and two other men near the Sicilian capital, Palermo. | Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who had been on the run for 20 years, was apprehended along with his son and two other men near the Sicilian capital, Palermo. |
All four men were among Italy's top 30 most wanted mafia suspects, police said. | All four men were among Italy's top 30 most wanted mafia suspects, police said. |
Mr Lo Piccolo, 65, is believed to have succeeded the Cosa Nostra mafia's "boss of bosses", Bernardo Provenzano, after he was arrested last year. | Mr Lo Piccolo, 65, is believed to have succeeded the Cosa Nostra mafia's "boss of bosses", Bernardo Provenzano, after he was arrested last year. |
Mr Provenzano, who led the Cosa Nostra from the early 1990s, was arrested in April 2006 after being on the run for more than 40 years. | |
He is currently being held in isolation at a high security jail in Terni, central Italy. | |
After Mr Provenzano's arrest, Mr Lo Piccolo was believed to be among his most likely successors. | |
The others were another of Mr Provenzano's senior aides, Antonino Rotolo, and Matteo Messina Denaro, a younger mafia leader from the Sicilian province of Trapani. | |
Mr Rotolo was arrested in June 2006. Mr Denaro remains on the run. |