Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested by Italian police - USA TODAY

ROME – Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia brag Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested connected Monday astatine a backstage session successful Palermo, Sicily, aft 30 years connected the run, Italian paramilitary constabulary said.

Messina Denaro was captured astatine the session wherever helium was receiving attraction for an undisclosed aesculapian condition, said Carabinieri Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, who heads the constabulary force’s peculiar operations squad.

Messina Denaro was taken to a concealed determination by constabulary instantly aft the arrest, Italian authorities tv reported.

A young antheral erstwhile helium went into hiding, helium is present 60. Messina Denaro, who had a powerfulness basal successful the larboard metropolis of Trapani, successful occidental Sicily, was considered Sicily’s Cosa Nostra apical brag adjacent portion a fugitive.

He was the past of 3 longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture.

Messina Denaro, who was tried successful absentia and convicted of dozens of murders, faces aggregate beingness sentences.

He is acceptable to beryllium imprisoned for 2 bombings successful Sicily successful 1992 that murdered apical anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Among different grisly crimes helium was convicted of is the execution of a Mafia turncoat's young son, who was strangled and his assemblage dissolved successful a vat of acid.

The apprehension Monday came 30 years and a time aft the seizure of convicted “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina, successful a Palermo flat aft 23 years connected the run.