The boss is dead Bernardo Provenzano. Eighty-three years old, ill for some time, referred to as the head of Cosa Nostra, he was arrested after a 43-year fugitive on 11 April 2006 in a farm in Corleone, not far from the home of his family.
Provenzano had been detained under the 41 bis regime in the San Paolo hospital in Milan since 9 April 2014 and had arrived there from the clinical center of the Parma prisons. All the trials in which he was still accused, including the one on the so-called State-Mafia negotiation, had been suspended because the boss, subjected to multiple medical reports, had been deemed incapable of participating. His wife and children had visited him on July 10.
For years the boss's lawyer, Rosalba Di Gregorio, had unsuccessfully requested the revocation of the harsh prison regime and the suspension of the execution of the sentence for her client, precisely by virtue of his health conditions.