F1 fan once mistaken for Italian mafia boss breathes sigh of relief as Matteo Messina Denaro is captured!

A penny for the thoughts of the F1 fan who narrowly escaped jail after convincing police that was not, in fact, a mafia boss.
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Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive from Sicily who has 🧔been wanted for 30 years, has finally been captured bringing an end to a major worldwide man-hunt which bizarrely touched the F1 community two years ago.

A 54-year-old British man from Liverpool was grabbed by pol๊ice in The Hag꧃ue, Netherlands, in 2021 because they incorrectly thought he was Denaro.

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💧Mark L, as the innocent man is known, had a hood pulled over his face by the police as he ate at a restaurant with his son and a friend.

The Dutch police believed that the fu▨gitive mafia boss was in t♐heir country - but they were wrong.

Mark L was only i🍒n the Netherlands because he attended the F1 Dutch Grand Prix.

His lawyer at the time said: "I was always convinced he was n𝐆ot [the mafia bossꦆ]. It would have been a genius of an Italian to have such a strong Liverpool accent.

"You can imagine. He had anger and d🌠isbelief and laughter because it is ludicrous. He is a normal Formula One fan."

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