The “Last Godfather” of the sicilian mafia dies after long illness.
Messina Denaro had been hiding since 1993 and was arrested in January on his way to hospital.
Denaro who appears to be the boss of Cosa Nostra, was accused of orchestrating many wrongful crimes carried out by the Cosa Nostra has died after long illness.
The Italian Mafia boss Denaro was one of the country’s most wanted men until his capture earlier this year.
The 61 years old boss was being treated for cancer at the time of his arrest and moved to the hospital from prison last month.
Messina Denaro commited a numerous murders, was wanted and was tried and sentenced to life in jail in 2002 for crimes including
Involvement in the 1992 killing of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
He was also held responsible for bombings in Rome, Florence and Milan in 1993 that killed 10 people.
According to local media, he fell into a coma on Friday at a hospital in the central Italian city of L’Aquila and never regained consciousness.
He had undergone surgery in recent months for issues to do with his cancer but was not recovered.
L’Aquila Mayor Pierluigi Biondi confirmed Denaro’s death, tweeting on X (formerly known as Twitter) that it was
“the epilogue of an existence lived without remorse or regret, a painful chapter in recent history that we cannot erase.”
Over the past days his daughter, whom he met for the first time while in prison in April, was by his bedside, Ansa reported.
Denaro spent much of his time hiding in Campobello di Mazara, a town of about 11,000 a short drive from his mother’s house.
Police also seized valuable business linked to him, leaving him increasingly isolated.