The former leader of Cosa Nostra left in the prisons of L’Aquila city Matteo Messina Denaro. The 62-year-old he was arrested last January in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run and suffering from advanced colon cancer.
Despite pleas from prosecutors to cooperate with justice, he had repeatedly refused to reveal his secrets. Under his “leadership”, the Italian mafia secured enormous financial power. He did not hesitate to order the killing of young children, to “punish” repentant mobsters who had decided to support the cause of justice.
For at least three decades, Messina Denaro – initially along with Bernardo Provenzano – was in total control of the Cosa Nostra drug tradein collaboration with Latin American “mafias”, but also with the Drangheta, the Calabrian mafia.
Among other things, as reported by the Athens News Agency, he was the person who ordered the murders of two judges – symbols of the fight against the mafia – Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borcellino, who died in Sicily in 1992.
Source: News Beast
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