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They manage to stop the "number two" of Cosa Nostra!

Domenico Raccuglia, number 2 of the Cosa Nostra (In the center of the image)

Italian police arrested on Sunday in the Sicilian town of Calatafimi Domenico Raccuglia, "number two" of the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. Raccuglia, 45, was included in the list of 30 most wanted by Italian security forces.

His detention has been held with jumps and shouts of joy by the Italian police, who did not hesitate in leaning on the balcony of the flat where he was arrested the boss to join the locals for Calatafimi, Trapani region, which had close to the place to cheer and congratulate the players.
On Sunday afternoon, realizing his impending arrest, Raccuglia jumped from a terrace of the building that was, but police had surrounded the entire building and managed to arrest.
The arrest of Mafia boss, "is one of the harshest blows to the Mafia in recent years because it was the" number two "de facto de la Cosa Nostra," said Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, was quoted by the Italian media. Maroni

telephoned the head of Police, Prefect Antonio Manganelli, to congratulate him on the operation, developed by the team Palermo mobile. "The capture of Raccuglia is a major research success," he said. "Raccuglia is considered the 'number two', for criminal weight on the wanted list of the Cosa Nostra after Matteo Messina Denaro," said the national anti-Mafia prosecutor, Piero Grasso. "This is a bust of extraordinary importance, we have one of the absolute leaders of the Cosa Nostra still in circulation at a time of rising in the hierarchy of the Mafia," he said, for its part, the deputy prosecutor of Palermo, Antonio Ingroia , who coordinated the investigation leading to the arrest of Raccuglia.
Raccuglia, 'The Vet', is considered one of the successors of Toto Riina, one of the historic leaders of the Cosa Nostra saguinarios, and is sentenced in absentia to three life sentences for Mafia association, kidnapping, extortion and murder, but is especially tricky for Giuseppe Di Matteo, an eleven-year-old son of a "sorry" that he was kidnapped in 1993, held in captivity for more than two years, after he was killed . His body was dissolved in acid to remove evidence.
The detainee had his headquarters in the town of Partinico, located between the Sicilian cities of Palermo and Trapani, and was considered the right hand of Giovanni Brusca, in order of who kidnapped Di Matteo. Brusca eventually became "sorry" after his arrest in 1996.


Source: ABC