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Matteo Messina Denaro

Italian mafia boss (1962–2023)

Matteo Messina Denaro (Italian pronunciation:[matˈtɛːomesˈsiːnadeˈnaːro]; Sicilian: Matteu Missina Dinaru; 26 April 1962 – 25 September 2023), also known as Diabolik (from the Italian comic book character), was a Sicilian Mafia boss from Castelvetrano. He was considered to be one of the new leaders of the Sicilian mob after the arrests of Bernardo Provenzano on 11 April 2006 and Salvatore Lo Piccolo in November 2007. The son of a Mafia boss, Denaro became known nationally on 12 April 2001 when the magazine L'Espresso put him on the cover with the headline: Ecco il nuovo capo della Mafia ("Here is the new Mafia boss").^[1]

Messina Denaro became a fugitive on the most wanted list of the Italian Ministry of the Interior in 1993; according to Forbes in 2010, he was one of the ten most wanted and powerful criminals in the world.^[2]^[3] With the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017, Messina Denaro was seen as the unchallenged boss of all bosses within th

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Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘last godfather’ of Sicilian mafia, dies after long illness

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”.

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 Salva

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Matteo Messina Denaro: The White Whale of Cosa Nostra

Matteo Messina Denaro, the last great Sicilian mafioso, has been on the run for 27 years. Considered the boss of bosses, he is the great obsession of magistrates and the police in Italy.

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