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Matteo Messina Denaro, who is the current boss of "Cosa Nostra", the most wanted in Italy

2022-09-05 20:12:06Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Matteo Messina Denaro, who is the current boss of "Cosa Nostra", the
Matteo Messina Denaro

By Stefano Nazzi - "Il Post"

Many things are known about Matteo Messina Denaro. For example, it is known that he suffers from a slight strabismus, that he likes sweets, and that he spends most of his hours on the run playing video games (witnessed by some regrets), solving puzzles, or as they call him " U Siccu" (The Weak One), and that he has given himself the nickname 'The Devil'.

He is also known to have given up, after much hesitation, the initials embroidered on the sleeves of his shirts, because it was a potential sign of revealing his identity, and that again, according to regrets, he keeps his body in shape through cycling of the gym.

So many things are known about him, but not the most important: his location. Prosecutors all over Italy, and police all over the world are looking for him, as evidenced by the strange operation of the Dutch special forces a few days ago in a restaurant in The Hague.

The Trento prosecutor's office, which was investigating a money-laundering ring, was convinced that Matteo Messina Denaro was in that very restaurant. Denaro is "no.1 among Italian fugitives", and one of the most wanted people in the world.

The last time anyone claims to have seen him was when he was on holiday in Forte dei Marmi in August 1993, together with his 2 trusted friends Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano. Then nothing more. The stories that are told about him describe the figure of a ruthless mobster, ready to kill even the innocent, perhaps more cunning than others, but certainly more prudent, to the point of paranoia.

He has never been in prison. He was born in Castelvetrano (Trapani), in the Belice Valley, in 1963. He attended primary school there, until he left the Ferrigno Technical Trade Institute in Castelvetrano.

As mentioned in the book "L'invisibile" (The Invisible), written by Giacomo Di Girolamo, in a letter found by the police in 2015 Messina Denaro wrote: "Regarding my life I have some regrets, and not attending the school of high is one of them. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. My greatest anger stems from the fact that I was a good student, only that I was distracted by something else."

And what distracted Messina Denaro was following the example of his father, Francesco, Don Ciccio, the mafia boss of Castelvetrano, tied in a close alliance with the Corleones of Totò Riina, the dominant clan of the 1980s and 1990s.

At the age of 20, Messina Denaro took an active part, together with the Corleones, in the fight against the rebellious Marsala and Belice families. He became a faithful student of Totò Riina. He was already a mobster, but he received unemployment benefits from the state, and he bragged about it.

He drove a Porsche, dressed in expensive Armani clothes, and carried a Rolex Daytona watch. It was the late judge Paolo Borsellino who first included his name in an investigative file in 1989.

A police commissioner in Castelvetrano, Rino Germanà, began to investigate the boy. So Messina Denaro decided to kill him. He, together with Leoluca Bagarella and Giuseppe Graviano, followed him by car along the Mazara del Vallo promenade.

They started shooting him, the inspector fought back, quickly got out of the car, and jumped into the sea followed by Bagarella, whose Kalashnikov jammed. Years later, Giovanni Brusca, who is often mentioned in Di Girolamo's book, said during one of the court sessions: "Bagarella does not know how to use modern weapons!".

Germanà escaped. After the attack, Messina Denaro went on the run: since June 2, 1993, his name was officially included in the wanted list. At that moment, he had already become the head of "Cosa Nostra" in the province of Trapani, an undisputed leader of the new generation of mafiosi.

The money for the group came from fines: for the most part, from contracts, agreements, transactions in the Trapani area, a certain percentage had to be paid to Messina Denaro. Meanwhile, a lot of other money came from illegal waste disposal, money laundering and of course drug trafficking.

The money goes through the accounts of hundreds of people. Messina Denaro did and apparently still does business in South America, Spain, France, the Netherlands and North Africa. A great loyalist of Totò Riine, Messina Denaro exercised almost military control over the Trapani area.

He was the one who decided who should be killed, and the one who commanded the "armies" in the wars between the mafia families. A lot of money also came from the new mansions. His family practically had a monopoly on the construction sector in that area. He encouraged the construction of illegal buildings along the entire coast of Castelvetrano and Mazara del Vallo.

Even meetings between mafiosi were held in one of the concrete manufacturing companies in Mazara del Vallo. There it was decided on the assassination that would be carried out against the well-known journalist Maurizio Costanzo, and it was there that the "strategy of massacres" was drawn up, which Messina Denaro fully supported.

It was he who showed Riina the targets in Rome, Milan and Florence that would be hit to attack the state during 1992-1993. Francesco Geraci, a repentant mobster, testified: "One day Matteo came to see me, to ask me what I thought about a series of assassinations that would be carried out against some well-known public figures such as Baudo, Costanzo, Martelli, Santoro and personalities of other important ones. He told me that this would destabilize the state. I replied: "It is a good plan".

So he told me that very soon we would go to Rome to "visit" these vipas. Before they left, Messina Denaro sent Geraci, Vincenzo Sinacori, Giuseppe Graviano and Fifetto Cannella to shop for elegant clothes. In Rome they began to frequent the most fashionable clubs, hoping to meet well-known public figures.

They began to study the movements of the journalist Maurizio Costanzo, and went at least twice to the "Parioli" theater, where Costanzo recorded his show. The assassination attempt was carried out in Via Fauro in Rome on May 14, 1993: Costanzo and his wife Maria De Filippi survived it unharmed.

Messina Denaro decided after Vincenzo Milazzo, the mafia boss of Alcamo, who was very critical of the Corleones, to kill his fiancée Antonella Bonomo, 3 months pregnant, who drowned on July 15, 1992. He was the one who authorized the kidnapping and the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 13-year-old son of a repentant mobster.

Di Matteo abducted in San Giuseppe Jato, in the province of Palermo on November 23, 1993, drowned, and then the body was dissolved in acid by Giovanni Brusca on January 11, 1996, after 25 months of being held hostage. But Messina Denaro has always tried to look different from the classic image of a mobster.

In a letter dated February 1, 2005, found in an abandoned base and signed with the name Alessio (a pseudonym he often used), he wrote: “Today I live as fate has dictated. I think only to be a fair person. I have made righteousness my philosophy of life, and I hope to die a righteous man, everything else is of no value.

Do not think that I say this arrogantly. If anyone knew me, they would only notice the humility in what I am saying. In my words, not even malice and hatred towards anyone. I have known deep despair, and I have been lonely. I have known hell and been alone. I have fallen many times, and I have stood up myself. I have known ingratitude from everyone, and I have been alone. I "ate and", I was nourished in solitude with him; can a man who has gone through all these things in silence have faith?

I do not believe. Today I expect my destiny to be fulfilled by following this thought: "I have seen what life has given me, and I have not been afraid, I have not turned my head to the other side, and I have not forgiven what cannot be forgiven."

And in another letter, in which he quotes, among others, the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, Messina Denaro states: "Jorge Amado said that there is nothing lower than when justice is mixed with politics, and I agree with him. As for death, I think I had a special relationship with it.

She has always been around me, and I know her. When I was young I challenged him lightly because of my youthful unconsciousness. Today, as a mature man, I no longer challenge him. I kick him in the head because I'm not afraid of him. Not so much because I'm too brave, but more than anything else because I don't love life.

Death is feared by those who lead a good life in this world, and therefore have something to lose. I have not lived a good life in this world, and therefore I have nothing to lose, not even the loves that I have already lost for many years.

I only hope that I can accomplish what I set out to do before I leave this world. There are still some pages of my story to be written. It will not be the "good" and "righteous" of our era who will stop a man like me".

Matteo Messina Denaro, who is the current boss of "Cosa Nostra", the
The arrest of Totò Riina

After the arrest of Totò Riina on January 15, 1993, Messina Denaro became the undisputed leader of "Cosa Nostra". He had no other alternative, as it was his "dolphin". Later it seems that Riina regretted that choice. In 2013, during an intercepted conversation in prison with the mobster Alberto Lorusso, a member of the Sacra Corona Unita, Toto said: "My father was a good man. But the son got nothing from him. This Mr. Messina, who deals with these wind plants, considers himself great. That he wants to make money with them!".

Riina was probably complaining about the new strategy of his successor, the leader of the new generation of "Cosa Nostra", that of mafia entrepreneurs who, as one penitent said, "preferred one less dead person, and one more pile of money". . There are many things that distinguish Messina Denaro from the mafia that was once run by Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.

One is that Messina Denaro is not married, there is no traditional family around. To Sonia, one of his girlfriends, he wrote during the first period of flight: "I do not even want to think about your involvement in this labyrinth, from which I do not know how I will get out, for the simple fact that I do not I know how and when I entered. Don't think about me anymore, it's not worth it!"

Another girlfriend, Maria Mesi, got into trouble, and was arrested for helping him. In 1995 Messina sent a letter to Denaro, in which he wrote: "Please don't say no, I really want to give you a present. I know, I read in the video game magazine that Donkey Kong 3 is out, and I can't wait to buy it. The game "Secret Maya 2" has not arrived yet. You are the most beautiful thing that exists."

By intercepting Messi, the police came very close to capturing Messina Denaro. It was 1998 when, following her, investigators discovered a base in Bagheria on Milwaukee 40th Street. When agents moved in, Messina Denaro had already fled. A jar of Nutella, another jar of caviar, a puzzle game, and a pack of Merit cigarettes were found there.

Before Maria Mesi and Sonia, there was an Austrian woman, Andrea Haslener, whom he called Asi for short. They were in a relationship for 4 years, 1989-1993, and met in Castelvetrano when she was a receptionist at the Paradise Beach Hotel. Messina Denaro, Graviano and other members of the mafia began to carefully frequent the hotel.

The hotel manager, Nicola Consales, told Andrea Haslener that those people were not welcome there. Consales was murdered on February 21, 1991. During 1995-1996, Messina Denaro had an affair with another woman from Castelvetrano, Franca Alagna. From this relationship, in 1996, a daughter, Lorenza, was born.

From that time Alagna lost all her independence. She was always forced to stay locked in the house, and when she went out, she was accompanied by relatives or her partner's people. In 2013, when her daughter was about to reach adulthood, she and her mother asked to leave Castelvetrano, and therefore the criminal world of Messina Denaro.

From where he was hiding, the mob boss gave his consent. According to the investigators, the girl has never seen her father. On July 14 of this year, Messina Denaro became a grandfather. His daughter gave birth to a child who does not bear the father's surname, but the mother's.

But there is another woman, the one who has always been close to Messina Denaro: his sister Patrizia. For a long time, she was the one who took the messages to her brother and sent the messages started by him to the destination. In 2018, she was sentenced to 14 years in prison for ties to the mafia.

In the court's decision, among other things, it was stated: "It has been proven that the defendant has conveyed very important messages from and to the prison, acting as an intermediary between other mafia prisoners, and her brother who is still on the run."

Since then, Messina Denaro has become more cautious with his movements. Investigations have revealed that he only issues orders through a network of highly trusted messengers. He doesn't use phones, only small pads.

It was he himself who explained how to communicate with these types of pods, to one delivered to the former mayor of Castelvetrano Antonio Vaccarino, who was actually acting on behalf of SISDE, the Italian secret service. Vaccarino managed to get in touch with Messina Denaro, pretending he wanted to open a chain of supermarkets in the Agrigento area.

The two began to exchange small kisses. In the first, Messina Denaro wrote: "All the people who have contact with me have nicknames. Yours will be Suetonius, and this will protect you from unnecessary dangers. You must send me the envelope with your answer through the same person with whom you will keep in touch. I think you won't have a hard time finding it.

You must send me the letter with the answer no later than December 20th. He can also deliver my package to you on the 19th, but no later than that, or it won't arrive again. You won't get my answer right away, since everyone is behind me."

Matteo Messina Denaro, who is the current boss of "Cosa Nostra", the
The arrest of Bernardo Provenzano

When Bernardo Provenzano was arrested on April 11, 2006, hiding in a farm near Corleone, the police found many documents through which Messina Denaro explained to the elderly boss what business he was setting up with Vaccarino. Then the former mayor received a final letter, in which Messina Denaro advised him to "live a transparent life, so as not to be involved in investigations".

When the newspaper "La Repubblica" discovered that Vaccarino was actually acting on behalf of SISDE, Messina Denaro cut off all contact. Maybe he managed to stay on the run for 28 years, also thanks to this communication system. The police have no fingerprints of him, but only a recording in which his voice can be heard.

It is kept in the archive of the court of Marsala, and dates back to 1993. The photos are old, and have no time stamp, as he was never in prison. Today, there are only a few imaging reconstructions of what she might look like today at the age of 58.

According to the investigators who are looking for him, he has been living away from Sicily for a long time, and even outside of Italy. This is because even the parcels he sends arrive at their destination after a few months. It is almost certain that in the early 2000s, under a false name, he was treated in Barcelona for a degenerative disease of the cornea of ​​the eye. Yes, according to later evidence, he was in Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Tunisia, and of course in Greece, where he went on vacation in 1994 with Messi under the false name Matteo Cracolici.

It also seems to have had connections with Venezuela. The cemetery where his father is buried (who died in 1998 of a heart attack while on the run) is equipped with cameras, but Matteo was never seen there. Some regrets have testified that his base was the region of Tuscany, and that he changed his appearance during a plastic surgery performed in Bulgaria.

Associate Justice Mario Pasta claimed that in May 2010, Messina Denaro was at the "Renzo Barbera" stadium to watch the match between Palermo and Sampdoria. There he met with other mafia bosses. Meanwhile, today everything has become difficult for him.

His sister, his right hand, is in prison. Many of his confidants have been caught by the police. Police operations arresting his accomplices followed each other, as did the seizure of assets managed by his loyal men.

The one who did business in the art world on behalf of Messina Denaro was Giovanni Franco Becchina, a well-known international dealer of works of art and historical-archaeological objects. His assets, businesses, land, bank accounts, vehicles and buildings were seized, including the Bellumvider castle in Castelvetrano, built at the time of Frederick II, and at the time the residence of the Tagliavia-Aragona-Pignatelli noble family, princes of Castelvetrano.

According to the Directorate of Anti-Mafia Investigation, all the properties actually belonged to Messina Denaro.

Associate Justice Mariano Concetto testified that he was commissioned by Messina Denaro to steal the Satiro Danzante, a very important archaeological object, which is kept in Mazara del Vallo.

"For that job, the boss told us that we would not receive even 1 euro. And that if we were to complain, we would end up in the channel of Messina" Concetto confessed. However, Messina Denaro did not manage to carry out that theft.

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