Messina Denaro's condition has deteriorated

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 11 - Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro's condition has deteriorated and he has been in a special cell in a ward for inmates at L'Aquila's San Salvatore hospital for a week, sources said on Monday.
    The sources said the intestinal surgery he underwent on August 8 was successful but the mobster's advanced colon cancer has caused an overall deterioration in his state of health.
    He had been in hospital for over a month.
    Before being moved to the special cell he had been in intensive care.
    He may be set to spend some time in hospital as his condition is not compatible with a return to L'Aquila's maximum-security prison, where he was being held under the tough 41 bis jail regime, the sources said.
    Messina Denaro, 61, was caught in mid-January at a Palermo cancer clinic after 30 years on the run.
    The Cosa Nostra superboss has been convicted for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 bombings that killed anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
    In addition to the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations, he has been condemned for the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster-turned-State witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996, and bombings at art and religious sites in Milan, Florence and Rome that killed 10 people and hurt 40 more in 1993. (ANSA).