The so-called 'last Godfather' of the Sicilian mafia enters an irreversible coma
Matteo Messina Denaro, famous Sicilian mafia boss who was captured earlier this year after 30 years on the run from justice, is in an irreversible coma and doctors plan to interrupt the machine that feeds him this Saturday, as revealed by hospital sources. cited by the Mirror.
The criminal, nicknamed 'the last godfather of the Sicilian mafia', has been in the L'Aquila hospital prison for more than a month.. Denaro, 61, was found earlier at a cancer clinic in Palermo, Sicily, using a false identity.
This Friday, hospital sources said that the criminal will not come out of the coma and the doctors will interrupt his diet.. The Italian news agency Ansa reported on Friday evening that the intestinal surgery Denaro underwent on August 8 was successful, but his advanced colon cancer caused an irreversible deterioration in his health.. The mobster, who used the fake name Andrea Bonafede while on the run, was first diagnosed with cancer in late 2020.
According to Italian media, the mobster had not been able to eat for days, and on September 12 his treatments were suspended, while treatments with painkillers continued.. In his living will, Messina Denaro expressed his will not to undergo aggressive treatment with the use of machines to keep him alive.
Because of this, the doctors decided, with the consent of his family, to continue pain therapy but stop chemotherapy.. SkyTG24 reports that relatives of Messina Denaro were allowed to visit him in recent weeks, but the visits have now been suspended.
After being captured, Messina Denaro also officially recognized his daughter Lorenza, born in 1996, while he was hiding from the police.. She is now his official heir and has changed her surname from Alagna, her mother's surname, to Messina Denaro.
bloody resume
The Cosa Nostra boss, who once boasted that he could have filled a cemetery with all the people he had killed, was convicted of his role in dozens of murders, including the 1992 bombings that killed anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. He was also convicted of the murder of 12-year-old Giuseppe di Matteo, the son of a mobster turned state witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996.
His bloody reputation as a ruthless gangster has other episodes, such as when he murdered a rival boss in the Sicilian city of Trapani and strangled his girlfriend, who was three months pregnant.
After officers asked him his name at the Palermo clinic where he was detained in January, he arrogantly said: “My name is Matteo Messina Denaro.”. He was then taken out of the clinic and other patients, who had been kept outside the facility for hours, applauded when they saw the arrest.