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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Crispian Balmer

Notorious Italian Mafia boss who boasted his victims could ‘fill a cemetery’ is buried at private funeral

REUTERS

The Italian Mafia boss who once claimed to have murdered enough people to fill a cemetery has been laid to rest in his hometown in Sicily, with only a handful of family members allowed to attend.

Matteo Messina Denaro, who was arrested in January after three decades on the run, died of cancer in a hospital in central Italy on Monday, taking to the grave the secrets of his mafioso past.

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