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 | | Tuesday, 7 August, 2001, 21:46 GMT 22:46 UK Italian police seize Mafia boss  Gaetano Scotto spent nine years on the run Italian police have arrested a crime boss convicted and then cleared of killing a leading anti-Mafia judge and his five bodyguards in a car bomb attack nine years ago. Gaetano Scotto was detained at an address in the northern Italian town of Chiavari after detectives tapped a phone in an apartment where he was staying, police said. He had been on the run since Paolo Borsellini and his police guards were blown up outside Mr Borsellini's mother's home in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, on 19 July, 1992. A court convicted Scotto in his absence and sentenced him to life for the murders, although he was acquitted on appeal.
In January this year, another crime lord was arrested in connection with killing Mr Borsellini and another prominent anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone. Benedetto Spera, who had been on the run for 30 years, was convicted in absentia for the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mr Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were killed in their car when a bomb blew up on a motorway outside Palermo The attack, two months before Mr Borsellini's murder, caused outrage among ordinary Italians who took to the streets in protest against the Mafia. | | See also:  Internet links: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Europe stories now:  Links to more Europe stories are at the foot of the page. | |
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