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President Meloni and Undersecretary of State Mantovano in Sicily following the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro

16 January 2023

The President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, travelled to Palermo this morning to meet with the District Prosecutor of Palermo, Maurizio de Lucia, the judicial officers who coordinated the investigation and the Carabinieri agents from the ‘ROS’ [Special Operations Group] who carried out the arrest of the notorious fugitive mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro. She later addressed journalists at a doorstep.

Before arriving at the Prosecutor’s Office, President Meloni and Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Alfredo Mantovano observed a minute’s silence in front of the Capaci memorial, which honours the victims of the bombing that killed judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and the police escort agents Rocco Dicillo, Antonio Montinaro and Vito Schifani.

[President Meloni pays tribute at the Capaci memorial and expresses her thanks at the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office - Video available in Italian only]

[President Meloni addresses journalists in Palermo – Video available in Italian only]