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Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘last godfather’ of Sicilian mafia, dies after long illness (www.theguardian.com)
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Cosa Nostra boss, 61, had been in hiding since 1993 and was arrested in January while attending hospital

Matteo Messina Denaro, the “last godfather” of the Sicilian mafia who was accused of orchestrating some of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by the Cosa Nostra, has died after a long illness.

The national news agency Ansa announced his death overnight on Sunday. The mayor of the central Italian city of L’Aquila, Pierluigi Biondi, confirmed Denaro’s death in hospital “following a worsening of his illness”.

His death “puts the end to a story of violence and blood”, Biondi said, thanking prison and hospital staff for their “professionalism and humanity”. It was “the epilogue of an existence lived without remorse or repentance, a painful chapter of the recent history of our nation”.

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[-] FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

puts the end to a story of violence and blood

Yeah, sure Biondi, we can rest easy knowing mafia has been defeated once and for all. /s

What a fucking clown in a fucking circus if a country. Mafia will never be healthier than when we think it to be dead, they thrive in the shadows and in the cover this kind of happenings provide.

[-] sudneo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I assumed the "story" was the personal one of Messina-Denaro.

[-] FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I know, but even his story is far from being over. He might be dead but his clan and his way if conducting business are certainly not over: assuming the opposite is exactly what mafia would like us to know since it requires ignorance from both the people and the state to thrive at the best of its abilities.

Cave semper canem when talking about mafia and choose your words carefully as they are vmmasters if trickery and deception on top of being horrible human beings (if such kind of animals can be even called "humans" at this point).

Peppino Impastato forever an hero, Messina Denaro forever a shitstain on the heel of the Italian boot

[-] ElleChaise@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

"There's no such thing as the mafia".

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Toto Riina's bullshit got them in hot trouble and they know it and learned from it.

[-] FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Here in Italy the first one to learn and adapt is always the mafia. The state is so clunky and unnecessarily complicated that it takes ages for it to change and adapt its ways, once this happens the mafia has already changed and transformed to keep away from the law enforcement hands as much as possible.

Nowadays mafiosi do not go around in poor clothing with weapons on them, the wear nice suits and briefcases filled with documents to keep on their shady businesses as they did from the Borbonic times

[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All according to his plan. Now he can have public funerals and a grave with its real name.

Old trick of mafia bosses: handing themselves over before dying, in exchange of something for the family, to be buried with official public ceremonies with their real name. And this always happens when a right wing government is in charge, leading the "negotiations". Real question is what they got in exchange

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Matteo Messina Denaro, the “last godfather” of the Sicilian mafia who was accused of orchestrating some of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by the Cosa Nostra, has died after a long illness.

In January, Denaro, 61, who had been in hiding since 1993, was apprehended in a private clinic in Palermo, where he had been periodically receiving treatment for a tumour under the false name of Andrea Bonafede.

On 8 August, he was moved from the maximum-security prison in L’Aquila and admitted to the city’s San Salvatore hospital, as his health had deteriorated and was “not compatible” with the tough jail regime he was being held under, his lawyer, Alessandro Cerella, said.

Preparations were already under way for his burial in the family tomb in the town, alongside his father, Don Ciccio, who was also head of the local clan, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

While at large, the mobster, who once infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery, all by myself,” had apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, included politicians and businessmen.

With only a few identity pictures taken in the late 1980s and early 90s, the Italian authorities reconstructed his appearance digitally, using the latest computer technology and information provided by mafia turncoats.

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