Backlash in Italy over German board game inspired by Sicily’s mafia conflicts ‘La Famiglia: The Great Mafia War’ is based on the mafia conflicts that raged in Sicily in the 1980s The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2025
A Mafia boss on the run for decades dies in hospital months after his capture Matteo Messina Denaro died on Monday in a hospital prison ward several months after being captured following decades on the run, Italian state radio said. WEKU · Sep 25, 2023
On the run for decades, convicted Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies in hospital months after capture Italian state radio says that Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, has died in a hospital prison ward, months after being captured The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023
Factbox-Matteo Messina Denaro: what's next for the Italian mafia after boss's arrest? Matteo Messina Denaro, a brutal Sicilian Mafia boss who was Italy's most wanted criminal before his capture last week, had been on the run for 30 years. Here are some key facts about his arrest and what it means: Reuters · Jan 18, 2023
Mafia boss Messina Denaro held in top security Italian prison Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was being held on Wednesday in a high-security jail in central Italy, subject to special restrictions applied to the country's most dangerous prisoners. Reuters · Jan 18, 2023
Fugitive's arrest like a 'quake,' but Mafia very resilient Prosecutors are likening the arrest of a Mafia boss who was Italy's No. 1 fugitive to an “earthquake” rocking the Sicily-based crime syndicate The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023
Matteo Messina Denaro: The last ‘godfather’ of the Cosa Nostra arrested after 30 years on the run The notorious mafia boss – implicated by prosecutors in dozens of murders – is said to see himself as a philosopher and folk hero The Independent UK · Jan 16, 2023
Arrest of 'last godfather' deals new blow to ailing Sicilian mafia The arrest of Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro deals a powerful blow to the mythology of the Cosa Nostra, toppling a symbol of the group's resistance to police efforts to break up organised crime. Reuters · Jan 16, 2023
Italy marks 30th anniversary of murder of anti-mafia judge Falcone ROME: Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island. Bangkok Post · May 18, 2022