Riina buried at Corleone (3)

(ANSA) - Corleone, November 22 - The body of former Mafia boss of bosses Totò Riina was buried on Wednesday in the cemetery of the Sicilian town of Corleone, near Palermo.
    Riina's relatives, protected by a police cordon, left the cemetery ignoring reporters' questions. The body arrived in Sicily via a ferry from Napoli early on Wednesday.
    The hearse entered the cemetery via a side entrance to avoid the attention of journalists and photographers.
    The mobster died on Friday, a day after he turned 87, in section for inmates of Parma hospital. The Italian church had ruled out a public funeral for Riina, pointing out that the pope has excommunicated mafiosi. He 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.