(ANSA) – ROME, JUL 28 – Patrizia Messina Denaro, the sister of late Mafia superboss Matteo Messina Denaro, was released from Vigevano Pavia prison in northern Italy on Monday after serving her term.
The 55-year-old was arrested in 2013 and given a jail term of 14 and a half years for mafia association and extortion.
She was among several people, including a number of women suspected of being his partners, to have been convicted for helping the mobster to evade capture and maintain relations with his men while during his 30 years as a fugitive of justice.
Messina Denaro, ‘Cosa Nostra’s last boss’, died aged 61 in September 2023 after being arrested in January 2023 while leaving a clinic where he was being treated for cancer in Palermo.
He was convicted for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 Cosa Nostra bombings that killed anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
In addition to the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations, he was convicted of 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).
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The 55-year-old was arrested in 2013 and given a jail term of 14 and a half years for mafia association and extortion.
She was among several people, including a number of women suspected of being his partners, to have been convicted for helping the mobster to evade capture and maintain relations with his men while during his 30 years as a fugitive of justice.
Messina Denaro, ‘Cosa Nostra’s last boss’, died aged 61 in September 2023 after being arrested in January 2023 while leaving a clinic where he was being treated for cancer in Palermo.
He was convicted for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 Cosa Nostra bombings that killed anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
In addition to the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations, he was convicted of 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).
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