Pistol found in Messina Denaro hideout

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 26 - Italian police have found a pistol in the last hideout of Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, caught last week after 30 years on the run, judicial sources said Thursday.
    The Smith&Wesson 38 caliber special revolver had five rounds in it, police said.
    The weapon, whose serial number had been filed off, was found during a fresh search of the superboss's lair at Campobello di Mazara, a town not far from his native Castelvetrano near Trapani in western Sicily.
    In the home, Messina Denaro kept a further 20 rounds of the same caliber of bullets, police said.
    Other finds in the hideout have included posters of Marlon Brando as the Godfather, Joaquin Phoenix as Joker, viagra, Mafia documents, jewels and books on Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin.
    The 60-year-old boss, who has liver cancer, once said he could fill a cemetery with those he had killed.
    The Trapani superboss has been condemned to life in prison in absentia for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 bombings that killed anti-Mafia crusading magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster-turned-State witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996, and bombings at art and religious sites in Milan, Florence and Rome that killed 10 people and hurt 40 more in 1993.
    He is not the capo dei capi of the Cosa Nostra, a post which is believed to be vacant, but very high up the Mob's ladder and a hero to young recruits for his glamorous lifestyle and ruthlessness, which he proved by strangling a pregnant girlfriend. (ANSA).