Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Mafia boss evaded capture by dressing as bishop

It's no wonder Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's "boss of bosses", has eluded capture for more than four decades.
According to a Mafia godmother-turned-supergrass, the 72-year-old mobster turned up to a summit of Cosa Nostra leaders in 1992 disguised in a bishop's purple vestments.
"At first I didn't recognise him. It seemed strange that someone would show up at a meeting dressed as a bishop," Giuseppina Vitale told a court on Monday, according to Ansa news agency.
"He was even wearing a violet hat."
Provenzano has been on the run for 42 years. The most recent photograph police have of him was taken nearly three decades ago.

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