The final massive boss of the bloodiest Italian mafia of the 90s who was launched With the arrest, life imprisonment for his dozens of murders grew to become efficient. He was the suitable hand of boss Totò Riina, he protected for many years among the most delicate paperwork of Mafia
Matteo Messina Denaro was the final of the good capos of the stragista mafia, essentially the most violent and bloody mafia of the 90s in Italy and had been in search and seize for 30 years. He has been arrested inside a non-public clinic within the metropolis of Palermo, the place he was clandestinely present process medical remedy for a few 12 months. This morning he was finishing up a COVID check when he was stunned by the Carabinieri. Finally, together with his arrest, his look can be recognized, the picture of the arrest the place he’s seen for the primary time after 30 years of robotic portraits has been revealed. This information closes the arrest of all the main bosses of essentially the most harmful mafia in historical past, however opens a brand new chapter through which their doable collaboration, sooner or later, can serve to make clear among the darkest points within the historical past of Italy.
The final godfather of the mafia, he was within the first place of essentially the most harmful fugitives indicated by the Italian Ministry of the Interior and for many years he was one of many primary bosses of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia. He had been closing in on him for years and the information of his arrest was anticipated sooner reasonably than later. One of the good certainties was that he was absolutely nonetheless in his native Sicily, the place management of the territory performed in his favor and it’s exactly there the place he has been discovered. He nonetheless loved nice management of energy on the island and that allowed his whereabouts to be protected, on a number of events he has been very near his arrest, however a breath all the time managed to save lots of him. This time the multiple hundred brokers who’ve participated within the operation and after having intensified the investigations of the prosecutors of Palermo Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy Paolo Guido, Italy celebrates a battle received towards the mafia.
Hundreds of officers have been concerned in his arrest over time. Today together with his arrest, the life sentence for the handfuls of murders dedicated turns into efficient. He was first denounced for mafia affiliation in 1989 and in 2000 he obtained a life sentence for his function as head of the Trapani mafia in Sicily. Messina Denaro is accused of greater than ten murders, together with Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of a ‘pentito’ (repentant who collaborates with justice) strangled and dissolved in acid after two years of kidnapping. Also massacres just like the one in 1992 that took the lives of judges Falcone and Borsellino and numerous assaults within the Nineties all through Italy.
Messina Denaro was one of many nice collaborators of one other elementary boss of the mafia, the additionally Sicilian Totò Riina, captured thirty years in the past now after 20 years of hiding in search and seize. A narrative, thus, that’s repeated and that’s that Denaro was a real “disciple” of Riina, in truth he hid him on a number of events on his properties. Messina Denaro has supported Riina’s bloody technique and is concerned in what in Italy they’ve known as Trattativa, the open trial for alleged secret pacts between the mafia and high-ranking State personalities. Precisely, virtually improbably, in Riina’s arrest, additionally in Palermo, in 1993, his home was not searched because of an error between the Prosecutor’s Office and Caravinieri. According to a number of pentiti, it was Messina Denaro who entered that home and took all the good paperwork that include the secrets and techniques of Cosa Nostra.
Messina Denaro is, indubitably, a personality of nice significance, an eventual collaboration now may illuminate among the most tragic occasions of the 90s in Italy. In addition, his arrest presents a picture of him for the primary time, he was unknown for 30 years, one thing that helped his hiding. Since the distant 1993 when the search and seize of him was activated, not solely have been there no photographs, however the traces that he has been leaving may be counted on the fingers of 1 hand. The letter he wrote in these first days as a fugitive to his girlfriend at that second is legendary, through which he invited her to proceed together with her life and overlook about him, figuring out, because it had been with all his collaborators earlier than, that he was starting a life within the shade. “My ordeal has begun, at 31 years previous…”, he wrote.
His case had all the time been distinctive, additionally as a result of he was virtually the one massive boss who had not set foot in jail in his total life. Born in 1963, now 60 years previous, he was a weird character, he preferred luxurious and ostentation and, they are saying, he had a melancholic and even a bit philosophical character. He was inheritor to his father, additionally a mafioso, Don Ciccio, who died in hiding, and through his years as a prison grew to become the proprietor and lord of western Sicily. He was additionally specific as a result of he didn’t respect the good creeds of the standard mafia construction: he was an atheist and didn’t have a conventional household, however he has recognized numerous ladies all through his life. His arrest is the tip of an extended work by brokers and the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor in Italy, however the investigation isn’t closed, it opens a brand new chapter which will include Pandora’s Box.
An ideal victory for the State that confirmed that they didn’t hire in entrance of the mafia. All’indomani dell’anniversario dell’arresto di Totò Riina, an different capo della criminalità organized, Matteo Messina Denaro, comes assicurato alla giustizia. pic.twitter.com/8d6sHaDloK
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