This is the man who arrested Cosa Nostra's mob. I went civilian, I don't hide.

The arrest of Chief Mafia officer Matteo Messina Denaro continues to stir up in Italian media and not alone. Cosa Nostra's notorious boss was arrested at a private clinic in Palermo after 30 years on the run.

Over 100 members of the armed forces are said to be involved in his arrest. According to the hard evidence the many men had originally attempted to escape, but he was stopped by the Carabinieri. But who ran the big operation? He is Luciano Arcidicono, head of the special operations group, which you have only been identified, but has even talked about Italian media, showing details from the operation.

Arcidiocono has praised the failure to comply with the operation, while it has indicated that it has gone civil and is not hidden, despite the threat the mafia may threaten.

I immediately got to know him from a lot of data they had about his physical appearance. He did not expect the police operation, did not suspect the operation. His associates were not suspicious. It was a complex operation that was also finalised thanks to secret preservation. He didn't get depressed. I went civilian. I don't hide”, he said to the Italian media.

Matteo Messina Denaro has been tried and sentenced in absentia, in life imprisonment, for a number of murders. These include the murder of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falconne and Paolo Borsellino in 1992, the deadly bombing attacks in 1993 in Milan, Florence and Rome, and also the kidnappings, torture and murder of an 11-year-old mobster turned into a state witness