Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The officials hope the arrests will bring them closer to Matteo Messina Denaro, who has been on the run since 1993. 
  
 Denaro heads "Cosa Nostra" (Our Thing), which was Italy's most powerful organized criminal group in the 1980s and 90s, but its power has diminished since the start of the new century following mass arrests of its members. The mafia also faces competition from Naples-based Camorra and Calabria's 'Ndrangheta groups. 
  
 Fifty-three-year-old Denaro, one of the most wanted criminals in Europe, is known for running an age-old secret message system for the gang using a sheep-based code, "pizzini," in which tiny chits contain messages written in cipher. 
  
 Matteo Messina Denaro is also known as the 'Playboy Boss' due to his taste for fast cars, women and gold watches 
  
 Gondola, who is in his late 70s, was responsible for alerting the gang members about the new messages placed under a rock at a farm, the police said. "The sheep need shearing… the shears need sharpening" and "the hay is ready" were among the code phrases used to alert the members about the messages. 
  
 The police had been trying to track the suspects since 2012. 
  
 Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi praised the investigators' efforts on his Facebook page: "We have to keep on exactly like this so that we can finally get the fugitive super boss. Italy is united in the fight against organized crime," he wrote. 
  
 "The state wins, the mafia loses," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano wrote on Twitter. 
  
 shs/jil (AFP, dpa) ||||| Image caption "The sheep need shearing," one message said - a phrase police are sure had nothing to do with actual sheep 
  
 A mafia boss on the run since 1993 communicated with fellow criminals using a code based around sheep, Italian police say. 
  
 Officers arrested 11 men they say are linked to the fugitive head of the Sicilian Mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro. 
  
 They said Mr Denaro communicated with his henchmen using scraps of paper left at a farm in western Sicily. 
  
 Phone messages used to alert the men to new bits of paper or "pizzini" often referred to sheep, police say. 
  
 Officers do not believe that the alleged criminals were really discussing agricultural matters. 
  
 "The sheep need shearing," "The shears need sharpening" and "The hay is ready" were among the messages passed between mafiosi, police say. 
  
 Another said: "I've put the ricotta cheese aside for you, will you come by later?" 
  
 Image caption Matteo Messina Denaro has been on the run since 1993 
  
 La Stampa said (in Italian) that the men were filmed by police over several months. La Repubblica said cameras had been installed in trees to film the men. 
  
 They were arrested in raids across Sicily early on Monday. Three of those arrested were over 70 years old. 
  
 Mr Denaro has been on the run since 1993 and is seen as the successor to two jailed Mafia godfathers. He once boasted he could "fill a cemetery" with his victims. 
  
 Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi praised investigators in a post on his Facebook page, adding: "Italy is united against organised crime." ||||| Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email 
  
 A Mafia boss used an archaic secret code to pass messages down to his lieutenants, Italian police said. 
  
 Fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro used a coded message system that uses farming terms, officers announced in the wake of a dawn raid that led to 11 arrests. 
  
 Police and prosecutors claim the men are key figures in the Sicilian Mafia and were working for Denaro, who has been on the run since 1993. 
  
 The coded messages were reportedly written on tiny scraps of paper called ‘pizzini’ which are secreted in remote places and destroyed after they are read. 
  
 The Italian media says he allegedly used phrases such as "the sheep need shearing" and "I've put the ricotta cheese aside for you" to let them know he had a new message. 
  
 According to Gazetta del Sud, the codewords for his closest allies are 'pigs', 'beans' and even 'fertiliser'. 
  
 The arrests were made in a dawn operation between Palermo and Trapani, with suspects ranging in age from 27 to 77. 
  
 Palermo's Chief Prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi said Denaro enjoys "a high degree of protection" in Sicily. 
  
 Prosecutor Teresa Principato added: "Matteo Messina Denaro is a parasite who does not take into account family ties, but makes use of the money that the members of his family and the clan can get him." 
  
 Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi praised the police operation on his Facebook page. 
  
 He wrote: "I am grateful to investigators and law enforcement for this blow to the Mafia. 
  
 "Italy is united against organised crime." |||||
A:
Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been on the run since 1993, but Italian police hope a series of raids early today will bring them closer to putting one of the most wanted criminals in Europe behind bars, per Deutsche Welle. Authorities say they arrested 11 alleged associates of Denaro, who heads Cosa Nostra, in raids between Palermo and Trapani after deciphering coded messages, per the BBC. Police say Denaro, 53, would communicate with the men, aged 27 to 77, through scraps of paper wrapped in tape and hidden under a rock at a farm in western Sicily. Mobsters were alerted to new messages by former boss and sheep farmer Vito Gondola who would mention agriculture-related codewords like "pigs," "beans," and "fertilizer," as well as phrases like "the sheep need shearing," "the shears need sharpening," and "the hay is ready," reports the Mirror. One message said, "I've put the ricotta cheese aside for you, will you come by later?" The Telegraph reports the scraps of paper contained instructions for Denaro's henchmen as well as personal messages for his female flames. Cameras and microphones hidden around the farm recorded the men, who read the messages, then destroyed them, police say. They reportedly had 15 days to respond. Gondola was also recorded telling a mobster that Denaro is losing power as criminals "disappear without saying anything." The Cosa Nostra syndicate was considered the most powerful in Italy in the 1980s and '90s but has since fallen from grace as its members are rounded up by authorities. Those nabbed today are "closest to Denaro right now," a police official tells the AFP, noting it’s "too early to say" if the arrests will lead police to Denaro.