Toto Riina, Sicilian mafia's ‘boss of bosses’, dies at 87

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One of Italy’s most feared mobsters, who led powerful Cosa Nostra, dies in hospital while serving multiple life sentences

 

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome and Lorenzo Tondo in Corleone

Friday 17 November 2017 13.22 GMT

 

 

 

Salvatore ‘Toto’ Riina is led handcuffed into Bologna’s bunker-courtroom by Italian paramilitary police in January 1996.

Photograph: Gianni Schicchi/AP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/toto-riina-sicilian-mafia-boss-of-bosses-dies-cosa-nostra-italy

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Is Totò Riina's death the end of the Sicilian mafia?

 

With mafia king Totò Riina dead, and heir Matteo Messina Denaro  on the run, is it game over for Sicily's once all-powerful Cosa Nostra?

 

 

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17 November 2017

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https://www.thelocal.it/20171117/toto-riina-death-sicilian-mafia-cosa-nostra

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How Totò Riina’s war on the Italian state almost destroyed Cosa Nostra

 

After a crackdown by law enforcement, mafia clans have turned from violence and intimidation to corruption and collusion

 

Clare Longrigg

Saturday 18 November 2017 05.00 GMT

 

 

Totò Riina during his trial in Sicily in 1996.

Photograph: Mike Palazzotto/EPA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/18/how-toto-riinas-war-on-the-italian-state-almost-destroyed-cosa-nostra