Italian police have found a pistol in
the last hideout of Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, caught
last week after 30 years on the run, judicial sources said
Thursday.
The Smith&Wesson 38 caliber special revolver had five rounds in
it, police said.
The weapon, whose serial number had been filed off, was found
during a fresh search of the superboss's lair at Campobello di
Mazara, a town not far from his native Castelvetrano near
Trapani in western Sicily.
In the home, Messina Denaro kept a further 20 rounds of the same
caliber of bullets, police said.
Other finds in the hideout have included posters of Marlon
Brando as the Godfather, Joaquim Phoenix as Joker, viagra, Mafia
documents, jewels and books on Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin.
The 60-year-old boss, who has liver cancer, once said he could
fill a cemetery with those he had killed.
The Trapani superboss has been condemned to life in prison in
absentia for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the
1992 bombings that killed anti-Mafia crusading magistrates
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, 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.
He is not the capo dei capi of the Cosa Nostra, a post which is
believed to be vacant, but very high up the Mob's ladder and a
hero to young recruits for his glamorous lifestyle and
ruthlessness, which he proved by strangling a pregnant
girlfriend.
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