The son-in-law of late Mafia boss of
bosses Salvatore Totò Riina, Antonio Ciavarello, was arrested on
Malta Thursday on a European warrant issued by a Brindisi court
in January 2022 to serve a definitive sentence for mafia
offences.
Ciavarello was taken into custody by Maltese police at dawn
after weeks of investigations.
He appeared in court later Thursday and agreed to be returned to
Italy, local media reported.
Riina died in 2017 aged 87 after his arrest in January 1993
following a bloody bombing campaign that claimed the lives of
anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino the
previous year and which continued in 1993 killing 10 more people
at art sites in Rome, Florence and Milan.
photo: Riina
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