Suffering from incurable colon and realising his remaining days were few, Matteo Messina Denaro — the last all-powerful Mafia godfather — scrawled his funeral instructions on a scrap of paper.Since he had been in hiding for 30 years, and never used phones or computers, he had intended to smuggle the note to his henchmen via one of his couriers (among them the five-year-old daughter of a local hood, whom he rewarded with ice cream).Along with his stash of Viagra pills, condoms and video games, however, the scrunched-up message was among the many intriguing items found by Italian special forces after they finally arrested him and searched his lair, last January.
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