Trial in absentia for most-wanted mafioso


Nearly 25 years after he helped organize bomb attacks that killed famed anti-mafia prosecutors, fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro will be tried in absentia in Caltanissetta, Sicily beginning March 13.
Long one of Interpol’s most wanted men, Denaro has not been seen in public for more than two decades.

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