The Italian Criminal Police had included Messina’s name in the list of six fugitives considered “extremely dangerous”
Graziano Messina, one of the most recognized criminals in Italy, has been arrested in the town of Desulo, on the island of Sardinia, as confirmed this Saturday by the Italian Police in a statement collected by ‘La Repubblica’.
Despite his advanced age, the Italian Criminal Police had included Messina’s name on the list of six fugitives considered “extremely dangerous.” He is now in a barracks in the Nuoro area.
Messina, 79, has spent most of his life in or escaping from jail, last sentenced last year to 24 years in prison for drug trafficking, though he fled shortly before sentencing. was executed.
The criminal is known above all for the wave of kidnappings carried out by his gang during the 60s and 70s and that, paradoxically, won the applause of the local population since Messina was a fervent anti-capitalist and most of his victims were businessmen .
The influence of ‘Grazianeddu’ on the island reached such a point that, in 1992, it acted as a mediator in the kidnapping of the 7-year-old boy Farouk Kassam, whose ear was partially cut off by his captors to speed up the payment of the ransom.
The boy was released after 177 days of kidnapping.
In 2004, the then president of the country, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, granted the criminal pardon, a decision reversed in 2013 when he was arrested again for drug trafficking.
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