On the run for decades, convicted Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies months after capture
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Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital prison ward, several months after being captured as Italy’s No. 1 fugitive and following decades on the run, Italian prosecutors said. FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta reports from Rome, Italy.