Cosa Nostra 'boss of bosses'
Toto' Riina was indicted Tuesday for a 1984 train bombing that
killed 16 people.
Prosecutors in Florence charged Riina with ordering the
massacre aboard the Rapido 904 train on the Florence-Bologna
line.
The trial, which is set to begin November 25, comes after
Premier Matteo Renzi last month signed an order to declassify
secret case files surrounding unsolved investigations that have
raised questions for decades.
Riina, 83, is already serving life sentences for his part
in the extremely violent 1992 murders of anti-Mafia crusading
magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, among others.
His lawyer told a court Tuesday he was preparing a request
to transfer Riina to hospital from his imprisonment under the
tough '41-bis' high-security prison regime for Italy's most
dangerous criminals.
Riina, who is serving out 12 life sentences, has had
three heart bypasses and is said to be suffering from back
and thyroid problems, as well as suspected prostate cancer.
Nevertheless, magistrates say 'The Beast' still has a big
say in running Cosa Nostra even though he has been in jail since
1993.
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