FILE: ITALY: MAFIA BOSS MATTEO MESSINA DENARO DIES
<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>File</p>\n<p>Carabinieri Press Office</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>January 16, 2023</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>- Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro being arrested.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--CNN INFORMATION--</b></p>\n<p><b>Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro dies - Italian media </b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has died, according to Italian media reports. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Messina Denaro, who was captured in January after 30 years on the run, died in the San Salvatore hospital in L'Aquila in central Italy, public broadcaster Rai News reported. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>He had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer, Rai said. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The former Cosa Nostra mafia boss was arrested in January while being treated in a private health clinic in Palermo. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>He had been a fugitive since 1993 and was considered by Europol one of the most wanted men in Europe, prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said told CNN at the time.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Messina Denaro was given several life sentences in absentia for his many crimes, most notably in 1992 for his involvement in the separate murders of anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>He received his most recent life sentence in 2020 for fatal bombings in Milan, Florence and Rome in the late 1990s, and for the murder and torture of the 11-year-old son of an enemy who gave evidence against the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>ITALY MAFIA BOSS DIES MATTEO MESSINA DENARO EUROPE</p>