Italian Premier Matteo Renzi
on Friday praised the State's "no fear" approach to the Mafia
after police seized 13 million euros' worth of assets from four
alleged accomplices of Matteo Messina Denaro, the fugitive
leader of the Sicily's Cosa Nostra.
"Thirteen million euros' worth of assets seized from the
Matteo Messina Denaro clan. Against the mafia, without fear,"
Renzi tweeted.
The seizures, which included personal property, real
estate, and companies, involved assets belonging to four men
arrested last August in an anti-mafia operation: Vito Gondola,
77, allegedly head of Cosa Nostra's Mazara del Vallo clan;
Michele Gucciardi, 62, allegedly head of the mafia's Salemi
family; Giovanni Domenico Scimonelli, 48, allegedly a member of
the Partanna clan; and Pietro Giambalvo, 77, allegedly a member
of the Santa Ninfa clan.
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