Italian boss Matteo Messina Denaro died this Monday at the age of 61 at the San Salvatore Hospital in L’Aquila.in the center of the country, due to colon cancer and eight months after his arrest.

His health deteriorated a month ago after two surgeries and, in addition to taking sedatives for several days, family visits were suspended, according to Italian state television Rai.

Mesina Denaro, before his arrest last January, was one of the last great godfathers of Cosa Nostra and was a fugitive for three decades.

After his arrest, he was repeatedly interrogated by Palermo prosecutors, although He never cooperated.

“I don’t want to be superhuman, even arrogant; “They caught me because of my illness.”– said the Italian boss during one of the interrogations, referring to the fact that his arrest occurred after he went to the La Maddalena clinic under a false name for cancer treatment.

His criminal activities began in the 1980s.when he was under 30 years old, and marked parts of the country for decades, for which justice sentenced him to two life sentences.

The last of these comes from his connection with the murders of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.in two historical tragedies of the Italian authorities’ fight against organized crime in the 1990s.

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Although this sentence emphasizes that the gangster had no role in carrying out the attacks that ended the lives of the judges – the massacres at Capaci and Via D’Amelio – he deduces that the mafioso offered assistance in monitoring the judges at the moment when the man most responsible for the attacks, Salvatore Riina, decided to launch operations.

(according to information from Europe Press And EFE)