Italian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is in an irreversible coma | EUROtoday

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The 61-year-old gangster had been affected by colon most cancers for 3 years and was arrested on January 16 when he went to bear chemotherapy.

Matteo Messina Denaro, at the time of his arrest
Matteo Messina Denaro, on the time of his arrest.AP
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The former head of the Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Money,Arrested in January after 30 years on the run, he is in an irreversible coma in the L’Aquila hospital (heart), the place he was not too long ago transferred from jail.

The docs determined right now to droop his feeding and since September 12, the therapy had been withdrawn and solely palliative remedy was utilized, based on native media.

The 61-year-old gangster suffered from a colon most cancers for 3 years and was arrested on January 16 when he went to bear chemotherapy at a clinic in the Sicilian capital, Palermo.

He was later taken to the utmost safety jail in L’Aquila (heart) however after his well being worsened, the authorities determined to switch him to the prisoner unit of the hospital in that metropolis, amidst robust safety measures.

The prison has left a “living will” or final will doc in which he asks that his life not be extended via remedies or equipment, based on the identical sources.

On August 8, he underwent surgical procedure for an intestinal obstruction however, though the surgical procedure was profitable, his well being circumstances entered a part of “continual worsening” as a result of most cancers.

The gangster, recognized by nicknames equivalent to ‘Diabolik’ or ‘U Siccu’, was Italy’s most needed prison since 1993 for his a number of crimes and for taking part in the bloody season of assaults in the early Nineteen Nineties, in which anti-mafia judges, amongst others, have been murdered. Giovanni Falcone y Paolo Borsellinoin 1992.

Later he turned essentially the most needed fugitive in Italy and probably the most harmful internationally and his arrest, after a sophisticated investigation, was celebrated as historic in the nation.

However, after his arrest, it was discovered that had hidden in the city of Campobello di Mazzara (Sicily, south), close to his hometown, Castelvetrano, and that he additionally lived an virtually regular life, because the restaurant receipts and all types of belongings discovered in his lair attest.

Likewise, the community of alleged collaborators who had coated up for him in Sicily was additionally found: from his sister Rosala, to his driver Giovanni Luppino, to his private physician, Alfonso Tumbarello, or the Bonafede household, who had lent him their final identify.


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