The Italian police discovered on the night of Monday to Tuesday the small building in a small town in Sicily where the most wanted mafia leader in the world, Matteo Messina Denaro, was hiding, arrested on Monday in Palermo after 30 years of searches, AFP informs, Agerpres reads.

The hideout of Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, was in Campobello di Mazara, a small town of 10,000 inhabitants, not far from his fiefdom in the commune of Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, where he was born and lived for the first years of his life.

Law enforcement searched the small two-story residential building painted yellow. The apartment where the mafia leader had lived for so many years was sealed. Inside, investigators did not find any weapons, but they did find perfumes and luxury clothes.

The small building is placed under the permanent surveillance of law enforcement who do not allow anyone to approach. Contacted by AFP, the Italian police refused to give details.

Matteo Messina Denaro was transported on Monday evening aboard a military helicopter to Abruzzo, the region located east of Rome and which has access to the Adriatic Sea, where, according to the media, he is to be incarcerated in a maximum security prison, probably in the city of L’Aquila.

The path of Matteo Messina Denaro, a cruel killer at the head of an important mafia network, follows that of the historical leaders of Cosa Nostra, Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, who died in prison in 2007 and 2016, respectively.

Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday morning, during a medical visit to the famous La Maddalena clinic in Palermo, where he was being treated, under a false name, for colon cancer.

Agerpres