Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has died eight months after his arrest. The 61-year-old succumbed to the consequences of cancer in a clinic in the central Italian city of L'Aquila. The boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra had only been arrested in mid-January. He wanted to be treated in a private clinic under a false name in the island's capital Palermo. He was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for the 1992 crime and other attacks.
Matteo Messina Denaro was the notorious Cosa Nostra's longest-hiding fugitive and was dubbed "the last Godfather" after he was on the run for over three decades
Marking a symbolic end to centuries of existence of the Sicilian mafia, the ‘last godfather’, Matteo Messina Derano, died of long illness. The mafia, known for its long tentacles of power and cold-hearted brutality to enemies, has held immense away over Europe’s underworld as well as the political system, in the past. Derano was the last of the powerful Mafiosos, and had headed the crime organisation with a ruthless fist