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(Update 1: Adds details, new headline, lede, minor edits) Rome, Sep 25 (EFE).- The “last godfather” of the Sicilian mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro, who as arrested in January after 30 years on the run, died Monday at the age of 61. Messina Denaro died with colon cancer in the inmate ward of the San Salvatore …
Matteo Messina Denaro was found guilty of numerous crimes, including helping plan the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino – crimes that shocked Italy and sparked a crackdown on the Sicilian mob
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