A poster of actor Marlon Brandon in the movie “The Godfather”, gems and documentation were found by investigators in three houses where the leader of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro lived.
Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is in a maximum security prison in the Italian city of L’Aquila after being arrested in Palermo on Monday on his way to a medical clinic.
Messina Denaro faces multiple life sentences for involvement in dozens of murders, including that of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992 and that of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster turned state witness who he was. was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996.
The houses in which the gangster lived are located in the town of Campobello di Mazara, in Trapani, Sicily.
Investigators have found documents that will be analyzed to determine if they can help rebuild Messina Denaro’s movements in the 30 years he spent on the run from justice.
The large poster of Brando, as the character Vito Corleone, the “godfather” of Francis Ford Coppola’s famous film trilogy, was in the living room of the first ransacked house, in Campobello di Mazara, just five miles from his hometown of Castelvetrano, the last hiding place of the man who was considered the head of the mighty Cosa Nostra for three decades.
A diary was also found, where the “capo”[chefe] he wrote his notes on national political issues, for example, or more personal ones, such as the rejection of his daughter, who had never met him.
Meanwhile, the detectives’ attention turns to the files that the mafia boss kept meticulously with notes and some accounts that, according to the Italian media, estimate Messina Denaro’s monthly expenses at almost 10,000 euros.
According to the Italian media, these folders contain names, surnames, telephone numbers and numbers that could hide pseudonyms and apparent accounts.
After the discovery of the first shelter, a second house was found on Wednesday in which Messina Denaro would have lived on Calle Maggiore Toselli, about a kilometer from the first house, and where they discovered a room hidden behind a cupboard and in which jewelry or precious stones were found.
A third house, also in that small town of 11,000 inhabitants in the province of Trapani, was discovered today and is less than 200 meters from the first. Completely empty, Messina Denaro seems to have lived there until last June, when he decided to move to another house for unknown reasons.
The first house belonged to Andrea Bonafede, known since childhood by Matteo Messina Denaro, the name used by the “capo” in his documents when he was captured near the La Maddalena clinic in Palermo, where he received treatment for would undergo colon cancer. .
Source: DN
