Lt Lucio Arcidiacono, who tracked Matteo Messina Denaro for eight years, speaks to the Guardian
utside a private Palermo clinic at 8.20am on a Monday in January, dozens of plainclothes carabinieri are waiting in the driving rain. No one moves. The tension is high. A radio crackles. The target is on the move. It’s now or never. When the colonel gives the word, two carabinieri officers apprehend a well-dressed man sporting a sheepskin coat, a white wool hat and dark glasses.
Every cop has his prey, just as every mob boss has his hunter. For eight long years Arcidiacono had hunted Denaro, and for eight years Denaro had eluded him like a ghost. Until 16 January, when the news of his capture went around the world: Denaro, perhaps the last living symbol of Cosa Nostra, was placed under arrest after 30 years on the run.
“In 1993 I was 20 years old,” says Arcidiacono. “The murders of the anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino the previous year had deeply affected me and had given me the decisive push to become an officer in the carabinieri.”
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