Italian police find a poster of The Godfather in the hideout of a captured mafia boss

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They are reported to be looking for hidden spaces in which a mafia boss might hide his “pesini”, small pieces of paper he used to communicate with his subordinates.

He avoided computers and mobile phones for fear of being intercepted and tracked by the authorities who were chasing him.

The police are also looking for DNA traces that could lead them to the mafia boss’s associates and acquaintances.

The 60-year-old is being held in a maximum security prison in the city of L’Aquila, in the Apennine Mountains, in central Italy.

Campobello di Mazara is about five miles from Castelvetrano, the city where Messina Denaro was born, confirming long-standing suspicions that he had stayed close to his roots during his many years as a fugitive.

Mafia bosses in Italy often seek to emulate their fictional counterparts in Hollywood.

Walter Schiavone, a senior member of the Naples-based Camorra mafia, had a villa built in the 1990s on the basis of the neoclassical mansion owned by Al Pacino’s psychopathic character in the 1983 gangster film Scarface.

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