Coffin expected in Castelvetrano on Wednesday © ANSA
- ROME, SEP 26 - The autopsy on the body of one-time top Cosa Nostra fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, who died in a hospital in L'Aquila early on Monday aged 62, is due to begin at lunchtime on Tuesday, sources have said.
After the autopsy, the body of the last godfather of the Sicilian mafia who spent 30 years on the run before being caught in a Palermo cancer clinic on January 16, will be transported by road to Sicily via a special route amid tight security. The superboss, who was diagnosed with colon cancer while in hiding in late 2020, had been in San Salvatore hospital since August 8 following a deterioration in his condition.
On Friday, he went into an irreversible coma and doctors treating him decided to withdraw his clinical nutrition on the basis of his living will rejecting dysthanasia.