One of Sicily’s most notorious Mafia “boss of bosses,” Salvatore “Toto” Riina, died early Friday while serving multiple life sentences for plotting the assassination of Italian prosecutors and law enforcement trying to the Cosa Nostra.
The Italian media reported that Riina, 87, died just hours after the Italian justice minister allowed family members to visit him Thursday for his birthday. Riina had been placed in a medically induced coma and his health deteriorated after two surgeries.
Monreale Archbishop Michele Pennisi, who serves the community in Riina’s hometown of Corleone, said Friday that the mobster’s death “ends the delusion of the Cosa Nostra boss of bosses’ omnipotence,” but warned that although Riina is dead, “Mafia has not been defeated” and “we should not let down our guards.”
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