Cops make new identikit of last Mafia fugitive

Italian police have made a new
identikit through progressive ageing techniques of Giovanni
Motisi, the last great Cosa Nostra fugitive involved in the
early 1990s bombing campaign that claimed the lives of
prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992 and
ten others in bombs at art and religious sites in Rome, Florence
and Milan in 1993.

   
Motisi, 65, is also wanted in connection with the assassinations
of politicians, police and prosecutors across Sicily earlier.

   
The new identikit has been created using Age Progression on
photos dating back to the 1980s and 1990s and found in Motisi's
Palermo home.

   
It is the same techniques used for the last fugitive superboss
Matteo Messina Denaro aka Diabolik, caught after 30 years on the
run in January 2023 and who died of cancer in a prison hospital
last November at the age of 61.

   
The publication of the new image of Motisi, nicknamed 'u
pacchiuni' or Fatty and on the run since 1998, has been decided
to try to close in on the boss, who is on Italy's most wanted
list.

   
Among other things, Motisi is wanted for the August 6 1985
murder of deputy police chief Ninni Cassarà, head of the Palermo
flying squad's investigative division and one of the
investigators most highly rated by Falcone, as well as agent
Roberto Antiochia.

   
Motisi was also part of the murder cupola led by the late
Salvatore 'The Beast' Riina, before being demoted for an
allegedly lax management of clan funds.

   
Despite this demotion, he remained on the list of the 100 most
wanted criminals in Italy.

   

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