ROME/PALERMO, ITALY ¨C The death of Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore ¡°Toto¡± Riina on Friday does not mark the end of Cosa Nostra, but the crime group is unlikely to allow one man such power ever again, a top magistrate and former mobster said.
The 87-year-old Riina died in a hospital in Parma, the northern Italian city where he had been serving 26 life sentences for murders committed between 1969 and 1992.
¡°The end of Riina isn¡¯t the end of Cosa Nostra,¡± said the chief magistrate in Sicily¡¯s capital of Palermo, Francesco Lo Voi. ¡°What remains to be understood is whether the men of Cosa Nostra will seek a direct successor or a new organizational structure.¡±
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