Salvatore Riina

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Salvatore "Totò" Riina (16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017) was an Italian mobster and boss of the Sicilian Mafia. He is known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry, legal change and a major crackdown by the authorities. He was also known by the nicknames la Belva ('the beast') and il Capo dei Capi (Sicilian: 'u Capu dî Capi, 'the boss of bosses'). Riina succeeded Luciano Leggio as head of the Corleonesi criminal organisation in the mid-1970s and achieved dominance through a campaign of violence, which caused police to target his rivals. Riina had been a fugitive since the late 1960s after he was indicted on a murder charge. He was less vulnerable to law enforcement's reaction to his methods, as the policing removed many of the established chiefs who had traditionally sought influence through bribery. In violation of established...

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