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.
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