Messina Denaro"s taste for high-end items was well-known. When he was arrested, he was reportedly wearing a watch worth €35,000. Police said that far from looking like a "destroyed man", he seemed like "a well-groomed man in a good economic condition".While he was a source of frustration for authorities and his victims" families, the fact that it took authorities so long to catch Messina Denaro fuelled his myth, said Prof Gialuz.