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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A sign of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
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The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have lon
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa's shows his parents' wedding album in which they pose for a group picture with mafia boss and fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro (right) in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 201
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Horses are seen here in Giuseppe Cimarosa's horse riding center in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
<br />
When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia f
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) cuddles his horse at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
<br />
When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Ma
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
<br />
When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
<br />
When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_228...jpg
  • ITALY - 19 MARCH 2020:  The last known photograph of Matteo Messina Denaro, the top Cosa Nostra boss on the run since 1993, is seen here in Italy on March 19th 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200319_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: The home in which Cosa Nostra's top boss Matteo Messina Denaro grew up, as well as his mother's current residence, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Enzo Alfano (63), mayor of Castelvetrano, poses for a portrait in his office in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. Castelvetrano is notorious as the birthplace of Cosa Nostra's top boss Matteo Messina Denaro.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
<br />
When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
<br />
When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
<br />
Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
<br />
When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
<br />
The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have lon
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_227...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_227...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_227...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_227...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Enzo Alfano (63), mayor of Castelvetrano, poses for a portrait in his office in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. Castelvetrano is notorious as the birthplace of Cosa Nostra's top boss Matteo Messina Denaro.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A man walks in the town of Castelvetrano, notorious as the birthplace of Cosa Nostra's top boss Matteo Messina Denaro, in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: An interior view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: The wedding album of Giuseppe Cimarosa's parents, Lorenzo and Rosa (center), posing for a group picture with mafia boss and fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro (right) in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Prove
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
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  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
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  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A man walks in the town of Castelvetrano, notorious as the birthplace of Cosa Nostra's top boss Matteo Messina Denaro, in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A man parks his Porsche car at the side entrance of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
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The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and busine
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020. <br />
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The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have lon
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: An interior view of the Belicittà shopping center, confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Grigoli, accused of being a front man for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, is seen here in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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The entrepreneurial rise of Matteo Messina Denaro coincides with the beginning of his escape. In addition to the traditional sectors in which Cosa Nostra operates, such as the control of drug trafficking (thanks to Messina Denaro's contacts with the South American drug cartels), the boss began to expand his business into the large-scale distribution and alternative energy sectors. Money was thus laundered into supermarkets and shopping malls. Partner and front man of Matteo Messina Denaro was Giuseppe Grigoli, the so-called "king of supermarkets", owner of a giant retailer that managed the Despar supermarkets and the Belicittà shopping centre. Grigoli started his business with a small shop in 1974, and with the protection of the boss he managed to put together an empire of 750 million euros. Another great business is alternative energy, in particular wind power. Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. Giuseppe Grigoli was arrested in 2007.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: The tomb of lorenzo Cimarosa, Giuseppe Cimarosa's father, is seen here at the cemetery in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Famil
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) walks towards his father's tomb at the cemetery in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: The wedding album of Giuseppe Cimarosa's parents, Lorenzo and Rosa (center), posing for a group picture with mafia boss and fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro (right) in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Prove
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: The wedding album of Giuseppe Cimarosa's parents, Lorenzo and Rosa (center), posing for a group picture with mafia boss and fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro (right) in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Prove
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) cuddles his horse at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Ma
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  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
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  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_225...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_225...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) cuddles his horse at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Ma
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) poses for a portrait at his horse riding center. in Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Giuseppe Cimarosa (36) was born into a Mafia family. He is a relative of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted Cosa Nostra godfather, on the run since 1993. Furthermore, investigators have long believed that Giuseppe’s father, Lorenzo, occasionally provided “support” for the fugitive godfather. “My mother is a first cousin of Matteo Messina Denaro and my father was arrested as part of the Eden investigation [involving Messina Denaro]. I live in Castelvetrano [Messina Denaro’s home town in Sicily, near Trapani] and I’m having a hard time . . .”, Mr Cimarosa said.<br />
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When the police came to arrest his father in 2013, Giuseppe was furious. There and then he wanted to again leave Sicily and return to Rome where he had lived and worked with horses for eight years in his 20s. He was disgusted that his father had again fallen into the clutches of their powerful relative. It was only when he went to visit his father in prison, immediately after his arrest, that Giuseppe changed his mind. In tears, his father told him that he was going to collaborate with the investigators, which he subsequently did. Realising how much his father was now risking, he opted not just to stay in Castelvetrano but also, in a certain sense, to fight back against the Mafia. What is more, he does so, not with a false identity as part of a witness protection programme, but rather by staying in his home town. His father, Lorenzo Cimarosa, died of cancer in 2017.<br />
<br />
Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALIA - 5 DICEMBRE 2017: Alfonso Giordano (89), giudice in pensione e Presidente della Corte d'Assise I di Palermo per il Maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra, posa per un ritratto nel suo studio a Palermo il 5 dicembre 2017. Era il 16 dicembre 1987 quando il giudice, dopo quasi due anni di Maxiprocesso, lesse le 56 pagine del dispositivo della storica che per la prima volta condannava i vertici della mafia. Fu una condanna storica non solo dal punto di vista numerico - 346 condannati, 114 assolti, 19 ergastoli, 2665 anni di reclusione e svariate centinaia di miliardi di lire di multa - ma sopratutto dal punto di vista giuridico: per la prima volta venivano condannati i vertici della mafia, veniva riconosciuta l'esistenza di una Cupola, i pentiti erano stati creduti. Una sentenza che resisterà fino in Cassazione.
    CIPG_20171205_AlfonsoGiordano_M3_225...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2020: Federico Cafiero De Raho (68), the Italian national Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Public Prosecutor, poses for a portrait in his office in Rome, Italy, on February 21st 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
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  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: The family tomb of the Messina Denaro family, a well known mafia family in the area, is seen here in the cemetery of Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2020: Federico Cafiero De Raho (68), the Italian national Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Public Prosecutor, poses for a portrait in his office in Rome, Italy, on February 21st 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200221_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2020: Federico Cafiero De Raho (68), the Italian national Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Public Prosecutor, poses for a portrait in his office in Rome, Italy, on February 21st 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200221_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • CASTELVETRANO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: The family tomb of the Messina Denaro family, a well known mafia family in the area, is seen here in the cemetery of Castelvetrano, Italy, on February 17th 2020.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
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  • FULGATORE, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2020: A wind farm is seen here in Fulgatore, Italy, on February 17th 2020. Mafia top boss Matteo Messina Denaro's closest men have managed to infiltrate the construction of the largest wind farms in western Sicily. <br />
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In 2019 Vito Nicastri, a Sicilian wind farm businessman known as the “king of wind”, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for bankrolling the top mafia fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro. Investigators said Nicastri, who made his name as an alternative energy entrepreneur, had invested money made from criminal activities and had “high-level” contacts in the mafia and “close ties to Matteo Messina Denaro”. According to prosecutors, Nicastri allegedly acted as a middleman between local bosses and corrupt politicians, securing all the permits required to build and deliver hundreds of windfarm turbines to Spanish, Danish and Maltese operators, with profits finding their way back to Denaro.<br />
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Described as “the last Mohican of the old mafia”, Matteo Messina Denaro (57) is one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, who has been in hiding since 1993. He was once considered a candidate to be the Sicilian mafia’s boss of bosses after the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He was born into the Denaro Family (a well-known Mafia family) in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. <br />
Matteo Messina Denaro, who infamously claimed: “I filled a cemetery all by myself”, has apparently kept up his luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his several bankrollers who, according to prosecutors, include politicians and businessmen. Investigators have long claimed that the boss, wanted for more than 50 murders, is being shielded by powerful Freemasons in Trapani.
    CIPG_20200217_EL-PAIS_MatteoMessinaD...jpg
  • A stage with three Italian flags is set up minutes before Gianfranco Fini, former President of the lower house of the Italian parliament and leader of the "Future and Freedom" party in outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti's coalition, delivers a poorly attended speech, in Palermo on January 17th 2013.<br />
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The stage was temporarily built in via d'Amelio, where anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by a car bomb placed by the mafia in 1992. Magistrates Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone were investigating on the relationships between the Mafia and politics in the months preceding their death that same yeaer. <br />
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Palermo, febbraio 2013. Un palco allestito per l'arrivo di Gianfranco Fini, Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelio al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992.
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  • A stage with three Italian flags is set up minutes before Gianfranco Fini, former President of the lower house of the Italian parliament and leader of the "Future and Freedom" party in outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti's coalition, delivers a poorly attended speech, in Palermo on January 17th 2013.<br />
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The stage was temporarily built in via d'Amelio, where anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by a car bomb placed by the mafia in 1992. Magistrates Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone were investigating on the relationships between the Mafia and politics in the months preceding their death that same yeaer. <br />
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Palermo, febbraio 2013. Un palco allestito per l'arrivo di Gianfranco Fini, Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelio al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992.
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reads a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince" in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3488.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3481.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3431.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reads an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3389.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reads an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3374.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaks on the phone in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3348.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaks on the phone in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3344.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, picks an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Antique book are here in the library of Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3330.jpg
  • Marcello Dell'Utri (75), a convicted mafia criminal and a former Italian politician senior advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is photographed here in his studio in Milan, Italy. Dell'Utri has been found guilty of tax fraud, false accounting, and complicity in conspiracy with the Sicilian Mafia. In 1980 he was called by Berlusconi and worked for Publitalia '80, the advertising sales wing of Fininvest's television division, first as a manager and later as the company's chairman and chief executive. In 1994 he was one of the founders of Forza Italia, together with Silvio Berlusconi.
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
    CIPG_20130217_ELE2013_FINI_Palermo__...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3497.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3484.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Antique book are here in the library of Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3450.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaks on the phone in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3355.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, picks an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, picks an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3336.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 17 JANUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti coalition, gives a speech in via d'Alemio where antimafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the mafia in 1992m in Palermo, Italy, on February 16 2013.<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 16 FEBBRAIO 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61 anni), Presidente della Camera dei Deputati uscente e leader del partito Futuro e Libertà nella coalizione del premier Mario Monti, durante un omaggio in via d'Amelia al giudice Paolo Borsellino, ucciso dalla mafia nel 1992, a Palermo il 16 febbraio.<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del Parlamento italiano – la Camera dei deputati e il Senato della Repubblica – si terranno domenica 24 e lunedì 25 febbraio 2013 a seguito dello scioglimento anticipato delle Camere avvenuto il 22 dicembre 2012, quattro mesi prima della conclusione naturale della XVI Legislatura. I principali candidate per la Presidenza del Consiglio sono Pierluigi Bersani (leader della coalizione di centro-sinistra "Italia. Bene Comune"), il premier uscente Mario Monti (leader della coalizione di centro "Con Monti per l'Italia") e l'ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi (leader della coalizione di centro-destra).PALERMO, ITALY - 17 FEBRUARY 2013: Gianfranco Fini (61), outgoing Presidente of the Chamber of Deputies  and leader of the party Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà) in the Mario Monti
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  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3545.jpg
  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Pool in the villa of Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. La piscina della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. An intercom in the armoured room of the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Un citofono nella stanza blindata del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo, Italia. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Pool in the villa of Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. La piscina della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. A kitchen glove in the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Un guanto da cucina sul pavimento della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo, Italia. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Glass bottles used for homemade tomato sauce are in the kitchen of the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Bottiglie di vetro vuote usate per la salsa di pomodoro fatta in casa nella villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. A bottle of "Bliz" limescale remover in the bathroom of Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Una bottiglia di anticalcare "Bliz" nel bagno del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Living room in the villa of Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia.Salotto della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Drawes and pillows in the room of one of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina's children in his villa in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Cassetti e cuscini nella stanza di uno dei figli del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina nella sua villa a Palermo, Italia. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. The bedroom of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. La stanza da letto del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
    OnOff_CIG_2012_06_VillaRiina_D-011.jpg
  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Carabinieri station commander Ciro Musto and officer Giuseppe Montesardo in the first floor of the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Il comandante di stazione Maresciallo Ciro Musto e l'appuntato scelto Giuseppe Montesardo nel primo piano della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Carabiniere Giuseppe Montesardo in the first floor of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina's villa in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. L'appuntato scelto Giuseppe Montesardo nel primo piano della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Carabinieri station commander Ciro Musto and officer Giuseppe Montesardo enter the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Il comandante di stazione Maresciallo Ciro Musto e l'appuntato scelto Giuseppe Montesardo entrano nella villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Carabiniere Giuseppe Montesardo opens the gate of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina's villa in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. L'appuntato scelto Giuseppe Montesardo apre il cancello della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. A basket in the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Un cesto nelal villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo, Italia. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Pillows in the walking closet in the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Cuscini nella stanza armadio nella villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Gate of the villa of Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina in Palermo, Italy. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Cancello d'accesso alla villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina a Palermo, Italia. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Pool in the villa of Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. La piscina della villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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  • 25 June 2012. Palermo, Italy. Access door to the living room and safe in the villa of Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Riina. Cosa Nostra's boss Salvatore Riina's villa in via Bernini, Palermo, was confiscated after his arrest on January 15, 1993 and will host a Caraninieri station. Salvatore Riina lived in the villa during the last years of his absconding ### 25 giugno 2012. Palermo, Italia. Porta d'accesso al salotto e alla cassaforte del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina. La villa del boss di Cosa Nostra Salvatore Riina in via Bernini è stata confiscata dopo il suo arresto il 15 gennaio 1993, e ospiterà una stazione dei carabinieri nel 2013. Salvatore Riina ha vissuto nella villa durante gli ultimi anni della sua latitanza.
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