Totò Riina's daughter has
opened a webshop selling wares celebrating the late Mafia boss
of bosses and calling him 'Uncle' in Sicilian dialect.
"There are two of us, Maria Concetta Riina and her husband
Antonino Ciavarello," reads the site,
zu-toto.scontrinoshop.com/about.
"We want to sell some 'Zu Totò' brand products, we're
starting with coffee capsules, we're doing this presale to get
orders to get us going, seeing that they've seized everything
from us without reason".
It went on: "Thanks in anticipation for your faith, we are
expecting large orders from you and then, in the time it takes
to set up a firm, we will send you what you ordered. For further
info: zutotodistribuzione@libero.it".
On her Facebook pafge Maria Concetta Riina said "the lion is
wounded but is not dead, it will soon rise up and keep
fighting...as it has always done, always".
Tony Ciavarello, her husband, is under house arrest in San
Pancrazio in Puglia, serving six months for a fraud committed in
2009 at Termini Imerese near Palermo.
Ciavarello, 44, husband of one of Riina's two daughters, was
arrested Friday to serve the six months under house arrest for
fraud.
Earlier last week a Padua detention review court revoked the
parole of Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, one of Riina's two sons, and
sentenced him to a year in a work 'colony' for contacts with
drug pushers that breached the terms of his parole.
Prosecutors had asked for a term of three years for Riina
junior, one of the Mafia boss's four children.
Toto' Riina, the bloody Corleone-born boss who launched an
all-out war on the Italian State in the early 1990s, died
on November 17, a day after turning 87, in a section for inmates
of Parma hospital.
He was buried on November 22 in the cemetery of Corleone,
near Palermo.
The Italian church had ruled out a public funeral for Riina,
pointing out that the pope has excommunicated mafiosi.
It was late pope John Paul II who first issued the anathema
against unrepentant mafiosi receiving the sacraments 24 years
ago.
A private prayer session was held in the cemetery, where some
of Riina's Corleonesi allies like Bernardo Provenzano, as well
as several of his victims, are buried.
Riina was still considered head of Cosa Nostra despite
spending 24 years under the 41 bis tough jail regime.
He had been in a coma since the second of two recent
operations and had been badly ill for a long time.
Nicknamed The Beast for his ferocity, he was serving life for
a slew of crimes including the assassinations of anti-Mafia
magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino 25 years ago.
Other infamous assassinations were those of Carabinieri
General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, who had recently been
appointed prefect of Palermo, in 1982; and of Sicilian Governor
Piersanti Mattarella, the brother of Italian President Sergio
Mattarella, in 1980.
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