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Ruthless mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro who spent 30 years on the run for allegedly murdering 50 people including a boy dissolved in acid has died of cancer aged 61 - eight months after he was captured by Italian police.
The mafia godfather, who once boasted he could 'fill a cemetery with his victims', was suffering from colon cancer when he was captured by armed police at a medical facility in Palermo, Sicily, in January.
But his condition deteriorated in recent weeks and he was transferred to a hospital from the maximum-security prison in L'Aquila in central Italy where he was initially held.
Messina Denaro, dubbed the 'last godfather' of the notorious Cosa Nostra gang and nicknamed 'The Devil' following a string of brutal murders, died in the hospital, L'Aquila Mayor Pierluigi Biondi confirmed today.
The mafioso had been forced into hiding 30 years ago after he ordered a series of deadly attacks, including the murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, as well as a series of car bombs in Florence, Milan and Rome that left 10 people dead and 93 injured in 1993.
And children were not off limits for Messina Denaro. In the same year, 'The Devil' helped organise the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in an attempt to dissuade his father from giving evidence against the mafia, prosecutors say.
The boy was held in captivity for two years before he was brutally strangled to death and his body dissolved in acid.
IMO either he's escaped justice in this world... or the Devil needs this man to burn in hell fast.....
Ruthless mafia godfather Matteo Messina Denaro dies of cancer aged 61
The mafia godfather, who once boasted he could 'fill a cemetery with his victims', was suffering from colon cancer when he was captured by armed police at a medical facility in Palermo, Sicily, in January.
But his condition deteriorated in recent weeks and he was transferred to a hospital from the maximum-security prison in L'Aquila in central Italy where he was initially held.
Messina Denaro, dubbed the 'last godfather' of the notorious Cosa Nostra gang and nicknamed 'The Devil' following a string of brutal murders, died in the hospital, L'Aquila Mayor Pierluigi Biondi confirmed today.
The mafioso had been forced into hiding 30 years ago after he ordered a series of deadly attacks, including the murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, as well as a series of car bombs in Florence, Milan and Rome that left 10 people dead and 93 injured in 1993.
And children were not off limits for Messina Denaro. In the same year, 'The Devil' helped organise the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo, in an attempt to dissuade his father from giving evidence against the mafia, prosecutors say.
The boy was held in captivity for two years before he was brutally strangled to death and his body dissolved in acid.
IMO either he's escaped justice in this world... or the Devil needs this man to burn in hell fast.....
Ruthless mafia godfather Matteo Messina Denaro dies of cancer aged 61
