The mafia boss of the family of Santa Maria di Gesù, Salvatore Profeta, died. The boss was detained in the maximum security prison of Tolmezzo, in the province of Udine, to serve a sentence of 8 years and 2 months.
Profeta, 73, had been hospitalized for ten days in the hospital, and would have died of a heart attack.
He was considered among the most loyal men to the boss Stefano Bontade, assassinated in 1981 in the war unleashed by the Corleonesi of Totò Riina against the so-called 'losing mafia'. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the massacre of Via D'Amelio, where in 1992 Paolo Borsellino and the escort agents were murdered, He was released in 2011 after the various trials ascertained the false declarations of the false repentant Vincenzo Scarantino ..
Returning to the Guadagna, Salvatore Profeta took over the reins of the clan with his old style of 'godfather'.
Speaking of him, the former deputy prosecutor of Palermo, Leonardo Agueci, said: "Profeta was not only the recognized boss but also posed as such"; he had chosen a bar in the main square of the district as a 'office', and every day he received people, dispensed aid and favors to strengthen the control of the territory. "
The boss was arrested three years ago for the Mafia association, extortion and robbery.