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Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been sentenced to life in prison by a Sicilian court. The 58-year-old is considered the most powerful man in the Sicilian mafia, although it is unclear if he controls the entire Cosa Nostra. The Caltanissetta city court convicted Denaro late Tuesday of his involvement in the 1992 bombings, which killed anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and others, the news agency reported. Ansa. Denaro went into hiding in 1993 and has been on the run ever since. He was sentenced in absentia.
Successor of «Toto» Riina
The court had also awarded the victims’ families amounts between 10,000 and 500,000 euros, and the three survivors of the attacks should receive 100,000 euros, he said.
Denaro is considered the successor of mobster godfather Salvatore “Totò” Riina, who died in 2017 at the age of 87 in an Italian maximum security prison. Police have already arrested dozens of his relatives and aides.
