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Italy: boss Messina Denaro arrested, “but Mafia is not defeated”

PALERMO – Thirty years ago, the Carabinieri led by Captain Ultimo intercepted and captured Toto Riina, “the boss of bosses”. It was January 15, 1993. Today, exactly three decades and one day later, the soldiers of the Arma arrested Matteo Messina Denaro (in the pic above, by Arma dei Carabinieri), a fugitive since 1993, when an arrest warrant was issued against him. 

Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich violates bail, arrested

OTTAWA – Tamara Lich, one of the main organizers of the “Freedom Convoy”, was arrested in Alberta for violating the conditions for her bail set by the court. This is what the Ottawa police say. The arrest was confirmed by Eric Granger, one of his lawyers who said he was awaiting further details. Keith Wilson, another lawyer who defended Lich posted on Twitter that “the heroine of the Freedom Convoy” was stopped by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Medicine Hat, Alberta, where she lives. 

Two teenagers were arrested for burning a rainbow flag in Mississauga

Police reported the arrest of two teenagers suspected of burning a rainbow flag after a video of the incident circulated on social media earlier this month. Investigators from the 12th Division Criminal Investigative Bureau, Region of Peel, completed an investigation that began after a video of a rainbow flag being burned on the ground by students at a school circulated on social media.