Salvatore Riina

Italian crime boss and member of the Sicilian Mafia

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').

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