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Matteo Messina Denaro died in a hospital in L’Aquila in Italy, the mayor of the city confirmed on Monday morning. Reuters and AFP write that. Denaro was arrested in January this year, after 30 years on the run. He has since served time in a prison in central Italy, but was moved to hospital in August. He had colon cancer and needed treatment. Mayor Pierluigi Biondi says the death comes after the mafia boss’s condition had worsened recently. – Painful chapter Denaro is alleged to have been the boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia, known from the “Godfather” films. However, he has denied this in interviews conducted after his arrest this year. In 2020, he was sentenced to life in prison for complicity in two murders of police officers, and complicity in three bomb attacks in Florence, Milan and Rome in 1993. The police became suspicious that Denaro was in the country when they heard family members talking about a person with cancer over telephone. When they went through hospital records, they found a person who could fit, and went into custody in January this year. Photo: HANDOUT / AFP – The death marks the end of a story of violence and blood, says mayor Biondi. He also thanks the prison and the hospital for acting professionally around the mafia boss. – It was an epilogue for a life lived without remorse or regret, a painful chapter in our nation’s recent history. Went underground When the Italian authorities began cracking down on mafia activities in the 90s, Denaro went underground. Since 1993 he was on the run. His name was at the top of the list of Italy’s most wanted men, and thus became an increasingly mythic man. The arrest of Denaro was well documented. Photo: HANDOUT / AFP It was the cancer that was to cause him to be lost. On 16 January, he was arrested at a health clinic in Palermo, Italy. He was thought to have left Italy as no one found him for 30 years. Still, the police have been looking for him all over Italy for years. Eventually it became clear that he had spent most of his time near his hometown of Castelvetrano in western Sicily.



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