Totò Riina, sentenced to 26 life sentences, responsible for 150 murders, the boss of the Capaci massacre which cost the life of the great magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and their escort; which decided the death of the other great anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino, the boss died at 3.37 in the prison ward of the Parma hospital. He had just turned 87. Operated twice in the past few weeks, after the last operation he went into a coma. Riina, according to the investigators, despite the 41 bis detention for 24 years, was still the head of Cosa nostra.
On Thursday, when it was clear that his condition was desperate, Justice Minister Orlando granted his family an extraordinary meeting with the boss. Riina was serving 26 life sentences for dozens of murders and massacres that took place in 1992 in Sicily and in 1993 in Florence and Rome. His choice to launch an armed offensive against the state in the early 90s.
Never had a sign of repentance, irredeemable until the end, just three years ago, from prison speaking with a co-prisoner, he boasted of the murder of Falcone and continued to threaten the magistrates with death. Last February, speaking to his wife in prison, he said: "I'm still Totò Riina, I would also do 3.000 years in prison". The last trial against him, still in progress, was the one on the so-called State-Mafia negotiation, in which he is accused of threatening the political body of the state.
