One of the maps was delivered to Provenzano, then a mafia fugitive. The council of top bosses headed by Riina reacted by ordering the assassination of Salvatore Lima (on the grounds that he was an ally of Giulio Andreotti), and Falcone. [55], In total, Riina was given 26 life sentences[56] and served his sentence in solitary confinement. Votes: 3,267. Brusca also quoted Riina as declaring that the children of informants were legitimate targets. According to Brusca, Bernardo Provenzano "sold" Riina in exchange for the valuable archive of compromising material that Riina held in his apartment in Via Bernini 52 in Palermo. Calderone also said that, when Riina set his sights on marrying his sweetheart, Ninetta, the young lady's family objected to the union. Ciancimino said the map was returned by Provenzano, who indicated the precise location of Riina's hiding place. Riina went into hiding later that year after he was indicted on a further murder charge and was to remain a fugitive for the next 23 years. Notorious Sicilian Mafia "boss of all bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87. [22][23][24] Buscetta asked to talk to the anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, and began his life as an informant, referred to as a pentito. [44], This version of Riina's arrest has been denied by Carabinieri commander, general Mario Mori [it] (at the time deputy head of the ROS). In a move that was both practical and symbolic, this mansion was turned into a school for the local children. The same year, Provenzano was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of judge, The same year, Riina was sentenced to life imprisonment together with, In 2009, he received another life sentence together with Bernardo Provenzano for the. [33] Ignazio Salvo, who had advised Riina against killing Falcone, was himself murdered on 17 September 1992. According to the Carabinieri commanders the house was abandoned because they didn't consider it to be important and they actually never told the prosecutor to be willing to maintain the surveillance during the following days. On 15 January 1993, Carabinieriarrested Riina at his villa in Palermo. Police sent maps of Palermo to Vito Ciancimino. Over $125,000,000 in assets were confiscated from Riina – probably just a fraction of his illicit fortune – and his vast mansion was also acquired by the crusading anti-Mafia mayor of Corleone in 1997. In the early 1960s, Leggio, Riina and Provenzano, who had spent the last few years hunting down and killing dozens of Navarra's surviving supporters, were forced to go into hiding due to arrest warrants. On 19 July, the Tribunal denied this request. [20][21] Buscetta was arrested in Sao Paulo, Brazil once again on 23 October 1983, and extradited to Italy on 28 June 1984. Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled in October 2004 that Andreotti had "friendly and even direct ties" with Stefano Bontade and Gaetano Badalamenti, bosses in the so-called moderate wing of Cosa Nostra that Riina had supplanted in the Second Mafia War. Appeal court judges rejected Di Maggio’s testimony. [40] On 14 May 1993, television host Maurizio Costanzo, who had expressed delight at the arrest of Riina, was almost killed by a bomb as he drove down a Rome street; 23 people were injured. Knowing Riina would order the death of subordinates whom he considered unreliable, Di Maggio fled Sicily and collaborated with the authorities. However, not long after arriving, on 3 September 1982, he was gunned down in the city centre with his wife, Emanuela Setti Carraro, and his driver bodyguard, Domenico Russo. In November 2001, a court in Palermo sentenced 24-year-old Giovanni to life in prison for four murders. A crucifix looms over the Sicilian town of Corleone, the ancestral home of the late Mafia boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina. One of Riina's daughters was elected class representative in her high school, where she was able to return, aged 21, after the family came out of hiding. Thirty-three people were injured. By the end of the war, the Corleonesi were effectively ruling the Mafia, and over the next few years Riina increased his influence by eliminating the Corleonesi's allies, such as Filippo Marchese, Giuseppe Greco and Rosario Riccobono. He … Appeal court judges rejected Di Maggio's testimony. During the 1970s Sicily became an important location in the international heroin trade, especially with regards to the refining and exporting of the narcotic. A law to create a new offence of Mafia conspiracy, and confiscate Mafia assets was introduced by Pio La Torre but it had been stalled in parliament for two years, La Torre was murdered April 30, 1982. [5][38][39], After Riina was captured in January 1993, numerous terror attacks were ordered as warning to its members to not turn state's witness, but also in response for the overruling of the Article 41-bis prison regime. [60] On 31 August 2014, newspapers reported that in November of the previous year, Riina was also threatening against Luigi Ciotti. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu (Totò the Short), a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.Riina is played by Palermo-born actor, Claudio Gioè, and the series was directed by Alexis Sweet and Enzo Monteleone. Dirt bike, minivan collide after Niagara Falls Police chase Mori, however, confirmed that channels of communication were opened with Cosa Nostra through Vito Ciancimino – a former mayor of Palermo convicted for Mafia association – who was close to the Corleonesi. The explosion was part of a series, on May 27, 1993 a bomb under the Florence Torre dei Pulci killed five people: Fabrizio Nencini, wife Angelamaria; their daughters; 9-year-old Nadia and two-month-old Caterina, and Dario Capolicchio, aged 20. Together with Riina, Calogero Bagarella and Bernardo Provenzano (who were three of the gunmen in Navarra's slaying), Leggio began to increase the power of the Corleonesi. An informant, Antonino Calderone, described Riina as being "unbelievably ignorant, but he had an intuition and intelligence and was difficult to fathom ... very hard to predict". Brusca subsequently tortured and killed the 11-year-old son of an informant in a failed attempt to silence the boy's father, who had been giving testimony against Riina. The Godfathers of many Mafia Families were often highly visible in their communities, rubbing shoulders with politicians and mayors, protecting themselves with bribes rather than violence. Giovanni Brusca later claimed that Riina had told him that after the assassination of Falcone, Riina had been in negotiations with the government. In 2006, the council of Corleone created T-shirts reading I love Corleone in an attempt to dissociate the town from its infamous Mafiosi, but one of his daughters' brothers-in law began an attempt to sue the Corleone mayor by claiming the Riina family owned the copyright to the phrase. Former interior minister Nicola Mancino said this was not true. There were up to a thousand killings during this time period as Riina and the Corleonesi, together with their allies, wiped out their rivals. The public were outraged, both at the Mafia and also the politicians who they felt had failed to adequately protect Falcone and Borsellino. One of these was delivered to Provenzano, then a mafia fugitive. The mansion was subsequently converted into a police office and opened in 2015.