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<br>Ruthless mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro who spent 30 years on the run for murdering 50 people including a boy dissolved in acid was buried today in a private funeral attended by his family including his daughter he only met after his capture.<br><br>The mafia godfather, who once boasted he could 'fill a cemetery with his victims', died of colon cancer aged 61 in hospital on Monday - eight months after he was captured by armed police at a medical facility in Palermo, Sicily. <br><br>Messina Denaro, dubbed the 'last godfather' of the notorious Cosa Nostra gang, was buried in the cemetery of his home town of Castelvetrano, in Sicily, this morning in a funeral watched closely by specialist police officers.<br><br>The mobster's 27-year-old daughter Lorenza Alagna, who he only met following his capture, was seen sitting in the front passenger seat of the hearse carrying his coffin.<br><br>His other relatives, including his sisters Bice and Giovanna and brother Salvatore, appeared emotional as they followed his hearse into the cemetery while being escorted by officers.<br><br>Salvatore was seen holding a bouquet of yellow flowers for the ruthless mobster while Bice rested her head in her hands as she walked behind the coffin alongside her daughter. <br><br>Police normally ban funerals for mafia bosses but the small ceremony was allowed under strict security.<br><br><br><br><br>Lorenza, daughter of late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, arrives at the cemetery, in the front passenger seat of the hearse carrying his body <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The grieving family of ruthless mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro who was dubbed 'Diabolik' following a string of brutal murders attended his funeral today in the mobster's Sicilian hometown amid tight security<br><br><br><br><br><br>The grieving family of ruthless mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro who was dubbed 'Diabolik' following a string of brutal murders attended his funeral today in the mobster's Sicilian hometown amid tight security. Pictured: Messina Denaro's sister Bice (right) and niece Lorenza (right) arrive at the cemetery this morning <br><br><br><br><br><br>The hearse carrying late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrives at the cemetery in the Sicilian town of Castelvetrano, Italy. The mobster's brother Salvatore is seen holding a bunch of yellow flowers whilst his sister Bice touches the hearse <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>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. Pictured: A mugshot of Messina Denaro from the time of his arrest in January (left), and the Mafia boss in the 1990s <br><br><br><br><br><br>In 1993, Messina Denaro helped organise the kidnap of a 12-year-old boy, Giuseppe Di Matteo (pictured), in an attempt to blackmail his father into not giving evidence against the mafia, prosecutors say<br><br>Messina Denaro was diagnosed with colon cancer in late 2020 while on the run but he was captured by armed police at a medical facility in Palermo while receiving treatment under a fake name. <br><br>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. The local mayor confirmed he had died on Monday. <br><br>It has since emerged that the mobster's only child, Lorenza Alagna, 27, met him for the first time in prison on his birthday on April 26 and continued to do so for the months afterwards until he was hospitalised on August 7. <br><br>Lorenza, who brought her young son to visit Messina Denaro in prison, and her mother Franca had spent their lives away from the mobster - but it was when the 'godfather' was captured that his daughter reached out to him. <br><br>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. <br><br>One of his six life sentences was for the kidnapping and murder of the 12-year-old son of a witness in the Falcone case. <br><br>Messina Denaro, nicknamed 'The Devil', helped organise the kidnapping of Giuseppe Di Matteo in an attempt to dissuade his father from giving evidence against the mafia, prosecutors say.<br><br>The boy was held in captivity for two years before he was brutally strangled to death and his body dissolved in acid. <br><br>Perhaps his most shocking act came in 1993, when he is reported to have assassinated rival boss Vincenzo Milazzo. His attention then turned to his victim's pregnant girlfriend, who he lured to the murder scene on the pretext that Milazzo was waiting to see her, then strangled her to death. <br><br>As Messina Denaro put his hands around her throat, she pleaded with him to spare her unborn child, yet he took two innocent lives without an ounce of pity. <br><br>L'Aquila Mayor Pierluigi Biondi said the mobster's death 'puts the end to a story of violence and blood', Biondi said, thanking prison and hospital staff for their 'professionalism and humanity'.<br><br><br><br><br>The hearse carrying late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrives at the cemetery in the Sicilian town of Castelvetrano, Italy, on Wednesday<br><br><br><br><br><br>Relatives of late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, including his brother Salvatore, holding flowers at left, and sister Bice, right, wait for Denaro's funeral hearse to arrive at the cemetery of Castelvetrano, in Sicily, on Wednesday <br><br><br><br><br><br>Messina Denaro's sister puts her hand on her face as the mobster's coffin arrives at the cemetery<br><br><br><br><br><br>The mobsters niece Lorenza and his sister Bice arrive at the cemetery this morning in Castelvetrano, Sicily <br><br><br><br><br><br>The hearse carrying late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrives at the cemetery amid police presence in the Sicilian town of Castelvetrano on Wednesday <br><br><br><br><br><br>A police officer walks through the cemetery as the mobster's coffin arrives there on Wednesday<br><br><br><br><br><br>Messina Denaro was sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in 1992 in the murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Pictured: The scene of the murder of Falcone in Palermo, Sicily, in 1992 <br><br>It was 'the epilogue of an existence lived without remorse or repentance, a painful chapter of the recent history of our nation'.<br><br>Messina Denaro is not believed to have given any information to the police after he was seized outside a private health clinic in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, on January 16.<br><br>Denaro had requested no aggressive medical treatment, ANSA reported, adding that medics had stopped feeding him after he was declared to be in irreversible coma. <br><br>According to medical records leaked to the Italian media, he underwent surgery for colon cancer in 2020 and 2022 under a false name. A doctor at the Palermo clinic told La Repubblica newspaper that Messina Denaro's health had worsened significantly in the months leading up to his capture.<br><br>Preparations are already under way for his burial in the family tomb in his hometown of Castelvetrano alongside his father, Don Ciccio, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper. <br><br>Messina Denaro was captured in January when armed police swarmed the private medical facility in Palermo where he was undergoing treatment. <br><br>The then 60-year-old had tried to outrun the police officers on foot and pushed his way through a series of hospital doors - but he only made it as far as a bar that was part of the same building where he had been seeing doctors for colon cancer checks.<br><br>As the officers cornered the frail mafia boss, Messina Denaro meekly gave them his name before they bundled him into a waiting black minivan in front of shocked patients and medical staff. <br><br>The Mafia boss, who had not been seen in public for three decades, was pictured sitting in a police van wearing a brown leather shearling jacket, a white skull cap and his trademark tinted glasses shortly after his arrest. <br><br>A trigger man who once reportedly boasted he could 'fill a cemetery' with his victims, Messina Denaro was a leading figure in Cosa Nostra, the real-life Sicilian crime syndicate depicted in the Godfather movies.<br><br>For a mafia boss who evaded arrest for over 30 years, it was his frequent visits to a private clinic that led to his arrest.<br><br>Messina Denaro had been sitting in the private clinic waiting to see a doctor for colon cancer tests when he was surrounded and chased by a swarm of armed police officers.<br><br><br><br><br>Messina Denaro was arrested in January (pictured) after spending 30 years on the run<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Pictured: Police reconstructions of the face of Messina Denaro shared to the public, depicting what he could look like today as an older man, and in costume as a woman<br><br>A member of staff who asked to remain anonymous told local media at the time: 'He'd been coming here on and off for about a year. He'd had an operation a few months ago and was back for more tests and chemotherapy.<br><br>'When I turned up for work this morning at 6am it was all quiet and then he arrived to do his Covid test.<br><br>'A few minutes later a police officer wearing full body armour as if he was going to war came in and said he was looking for a patient.<br><br>'He said to remain calm and that armed officers were on every floor of the clinic. We had no idea who he was or what his background was.<br><br>'The guy actually managed to get out and ran into a local bar but they tracked him down and that's when all hell broke loose.'<br><br>As news of his arrest spread across Palermo, local residents had emerged to applaud and shake the hands of the Italian paramilitary police officers involved in the operation.<br><br>The residents were seen cheering and wiping away tears as they felt a wave of relief that Messina Denaro, who had coordinated years of terror in Italy, had finally been detained.<br><br>Messina Denaro was born on April 26, 1962 in the small town of Castelvetrano near Trapani in western Sicily and grew up in the heart of organised crime.<br><br>He was the son of influential mafia 'capo' (captain) Francesco Messina Denaro, and he quickly rose through the ranks - and eventually followed in his father's footsteps to become the boss of Cosa Nostra.<br><br>He is said to have first used a gun at the age of 14 and allegedly killed at 18, and is accused by prosecutors of going on to be solely or jointly responsible for numerous other murders in the 1990s. <br><br>Messina Denaro is believed to have become the 'boss of bosses' following the death of Salvatore 'The Beast' Riina in November 2022. Messina Denaro was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level mafia who had evaded capture.<br><br>His first run-ins with the law began in 1989, when he took part in a bloody struggle between two clans.<br><br>He was accused that year of murdering Nicola Consales, a hotel owner who complained to an employee of always having 'these little mafiosos under our feet'.<br><br>Unfortunately for Consales, the employee was Messina Denaro's mistress.<br><br>In 1992, he was part of a mob group sent to Rome to try and kill anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone. The group was eventually recalled by Toto Riina, the Corleone boss dubbed 'the Beast', who decided on another approach.<br><br>He was found to have had a hand in the killing of Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and three police escort officers, who died in a blast on May 23, 1992, in Palermo, Sicily, as they crossed a bridge beneath which was planted 300kg of explosives.  <br><br>Two months later, Denaro had a leading role in a second bomb attack which killed judge Paolo Borsellino, another judge who worked to rid Italy of organised crime. <br><br>As head of the Castelvetrano clan, he was allied to the Corleonesi clan, who were immortalised in the legendary 'The Godfather' films.<br><br>He also became one of Cosa Nostra's deadliest soldiers when a war erupted between the mafia and the state over stricter prison laws for convicted gangsters.<br><br><br><br><br>Messina Denaro, right, is seen in a [https://jetblacktransportation.com/new-york-sanitized-car-service/ New York Sanitized Car Service] with Italian Carabinieri officers soon after his arrest at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, in January this year. He has now died of colon cancer<br><br><br><br><br><br>A composite picture shows a computer generated image released by the Italian police, right, in their efforts to track the mobster down, and a picture of Matteo Messina Denaro, left<br><br><br><br><br><br>The mafia boss, who comes from the small town of Castelvetrano in Sicily, faced a life sentence for his role in bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan which killed ten people the following year<br><br><br><br><br><br>Messina Denaro, head of the notorious Cosa Nostra gang and nicknamed 'The Devil' following a string of brutal murders, was captured when armed police swarmed a private medical facility in Palermo, Sicily, in January <br><br>Messina Denaro was also convicted for the murder of 12-year-old Giuseppe di Matteo, who was abducted and held captive for two years in a bid by the mafia to stop the boy's father from testifying against them to the state.<br><br>After all that time in captivity, he was brutally strangled to death and his body was disposed of in a bath of acid.<br><br>It was in the same year that Messina Denaro is accused of having a role in bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan that killed 10 people and injured 93.<br><br>The attacks were carried out alongside notorious hitman Giovanni Brusca, who boasted to murdering 200 people single-highhandedly.<br><br>The bomb attacks, that targeted some of Italy's most historic monuments, forced Messina Denaro into hiding.<br><br>Messina Denaro had faced multiple life sentences at the time of his death, including for the murder of Falcone and Borsellino and his role in the bomb attacks.<br><br>Messina Denaro had been number one on Italy's most-wanted list but the only known photo of him dated back to the early 1990. A [https://jetblacktransportation.com/new-york-sanitized-car-service/ New York Sanitized Car Service] e-fit was created in 2014 with the help of an informant.<br><br>Police said in September 2022 that Messina Denaro was still able to issue commands around the running of the mafia in the area around the western Sicilian city of Trapani, his regional stronghold, despite his long disappearance.<br><br>In 2015, police discovered he was communicating with his closest collaborators via the pizzini system, where tiny, folded paper notes were left under a rock at a farm in Sicily.<br><br>Messina Denaro also used a five-year-old girl, Attilio Fogazza's young daughter, to run secret handwritten messages between himself and other mafia top dogs.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>He was also held responsible for bombings in Rome, Florence and Milan in 1993 which killed 10 people<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The scene of the bomb attack which killed Judge Giovanni Falcone on 24 May 1992 in Palermo, Sicily <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The scene of the bomb attack which killed Judge Giovanni Falcone on 24 May 1992 in Palermo, Sicily<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The scene of the bomb attack which killed Judge Giovanni Falcone on 24 May 1992 in Palermo, Sicily<br><br>Fogazza, who himself is on a murder charge, said in 2016 that Messina Denaro's second-in-command Domenico 'Mimmo' Scimonelli approached his daughter to send the messages.<br><br>The right-hand man had taken his daughter for an ice cream and put the messages inside her jacket and backpack.<br><br>The daughter and the rest of Fogazza's family have been living in a secret location under police protection while he cooperates with the prosecutors as they attempt to bring down the 'boss of bosses' in the Italian mafia scene.<br><br>Fogazza ran a [https://jetblacktransportation.com/new-york-sanitized-car-service/ New York Sanitized Car Service] dealership in south-western Sicily and decided to collaborate with Palermo investigators after he was arrested last December for the murder of Salvatore Lombardo in 2009, who was killed after he stole a van from Scimonelli.<br><br>'One day my daughter said Uncle Mimmo had taken her for a gelato and put the messages inside her jacket and her backpack,' Fogazza told prosecutors in Palermo.<br><br>Messina Denaro lived a playboy lifestyle. He was known for driving expensive cars and for having a taste for wearing finely tailored suits and Rolex watches. As a rising-star in the mafia in the 1980s, he dressed in designer brands Versace and Armani. <br><br>His womanising ways raised eyebrows among the clans more conservative members. He fathered a daughter in 1995, which was seen as not being in keeping with Cosa Nostra's more traditional family values. <br><br><br>CrimeItalyCancer<br><br><br><br>If you loved this short article and you would like to receive extra info regarding [https://jetblacktransportation.com/new-york-sanitized-car-service/ New York Car Service] kindly take a look at the web-page.