Palermo police said Monday they had arrested a 40-year-old Palermo teacher who they said was the "umpteenth" lover of late Mafia fugitive superboss Matteo Messina Denaro during his 30 year on the run.
Teacher Floriana Calcagno, 40, has been arrested on charges of aggravated aiding and abetting and failing to respect a judicial ruling.
She was arrested on the basis of jealous letters written by another of the boss's ex lovers, teacher Laura Bonafede.
Prosecutors said Calcagno "played a key role" in helping Messina Denaro evade capture.
Messina Denaro, 61, 'Cosa Nostra's last boss', died in September 2023 after being arrested in January 2023 while leaving a clinic where he was being treated for cancer in Palermo.
During a search of medical records, investigators found the names of 15 people they suspect Messina Denaro used for his medical procedures.
Several people, including Messina Denaro's sister and several women suspected of being his partners, including another teacher, have been convicted for allegedly helping the mobster to evade capture and maintain relations with his men while he was a fugitive.
Messina Denaro was convicted for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 Cosa Nostra bombings that killed anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
In addition to the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations, he was convicted of the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster-turned-State witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996, and bombings at art and religious sites in Milan, Florence and Rome that killed 10 people and hurt 40 more in 1993.
Long idolised by younger mafiosi for his ruthlessness and playboy-like charisma,, Messina Denaro sealed a reputation for brutality by murdering a rival Trapani boss and strangling his three-months-pregnant girlfriend.
The boss, who reportedly enjoyed orgies with Palermo women while on the run, once said he could have filled a cemetery with those he had killed.
He was reportedly helped dodge police by a "middle class Mafia", not only around his fief at Trapani in western Sicily but also around the rest of the island, Italian police have said.
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