As his condition worsened in recent weeks, he was transferred to a hospital from the maximum-security jail in central Italy where he was initially held.
, who was convicted of multiple murders and was arrested in January after spending 30 years on the run, has died of cancer, officials said on Monday.
Dubbed by the Italian press as “the last Godfather,” Messina Denaro is not believed to have given any information to the police after he was seized outside a private clinic in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, on Jan. 16. Nicknamed “U Siccu” , Messina Denaro became his protégé and showed he could be just as pitiless as his master, picking up 20 life-prison terms in trials held in absentia for his role in an array of mob murders.He himself once claimed to have murdered enough people to fill a cemetery.
He communicated with other mafiosi via “pizzini,” small pieces of paper sometimes written in code distributed by messengers, some of which were intercepted by police.
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