Salvatore Riina
Sicilian mafia boss (1930–2017)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Totò Riina ran Sicily's Mafia until the early 1990s, when his killing spree—including two judges—triggered a national manhunt and basically ended his reign. Nickname: la belva, the beast.
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Salvatore Riina, nicknamed Totò, was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, 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 and il capo dei capi.
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