The boss Matteo Messina Denaro, hospitalized in the inmate ward of the L'Aquila hospital, is in an irreversible coma, with doctors ready to suspend his feeding.
The conditions of the superb mafia boss, terminally ill with colon cancer, worsened on Thursday, when he suffered severe bleeding and then collapsed with his vital parameters compromised.
In his living will he would have refused aggressive therapy. His daughter would be at his bedside.
The last "red pimpernel" of Cosa Nostra, 60 years old, arrested on January 16, had disappeared immediately after the capture of Totò Riina.
The "ghost" of Messina Denaro was followed by a mountain of arrest warrants and life sentences for mafia association, murders, attacks, possession and transportation of explosives.
In the most serious criminal events of the last thirty years, starting with the massacres of '92 in which Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were killed, his hand was recognised. He himself, moreover, boasted of having "killed so many people to fill a cemetery".
(Unioneonline/lf)
