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Arrest Matteo Messia Denaro: the boss deserts the trial for massacres.  His chair remains empty

2023-01-19T11:17:15.284Z


The godfather renounces to participate in the hearing via video link with the Caltanissetta bunker courtroom. The chair that was waiting for him remained empty. The trial was postponed to March 9. The Pg: "We hope you collaborate". This morning the house of Andrea Bonafede's mother was seized: it is the alias used by the godfather during his inaction. The boss's driver in the clinic: "I didn't know it was Messina Denaro". Prosecutor De Lucia: 'I had a brief conversation with him' - THE SPECIAL (ANSA)


The boss Matteo Messina Denaro has renounced to be present by videoconference from the prison of L'Aquila, where he is detained, with the bunker room of the Malaspina prison in Caltanissetta where the trial is taking place in which he is accused as instigator of the Capaci massacres and via D'Amelio.

This was communicated by the president of the Court of Assizes of appeal.

There was expectation this morning inside the bunker room where the appeal process is being held against the boss, accused of being the instigator of the Capaci and via D'Amelio massacres.

It would have been the fugitive's first time in a courtroom, arrested last Monday in Palermo.

The video connection with the L'Aquila prison, where Messina Denaro is held, had been activated but the defendant gave up. 

The hearing was postponed to March 9 "to allow the defender to be present".

This was decided by the president of the Court of Assizes of Caltanissetta Maria Carmela Giannazzo, after the boss decided not to attend the hearing by videoconference from the L'Aquila prison.

One of the boss's two public defenders, the lawyer Salvatore Baglio, communicated that he had received an oral proxy from the trusted defender appointed by Messina Denaro, his niece Lorenza Guttadauro, and asked for terms of defense.

Attorney General Patti: "We all hope that Messina Denaro collaborates


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This was stated by the attorney general of Caltanissetta, Antonino Patti, at the end of the hearing in the trial of Matteo Messina Denaro, as instigator of the massacres of Capaci and via D'Amelio, which is celebrated before the Court of Assizes of Appeal in Caltanissetta .

The proceedings were postponed to March 9 to allow the defendant's trusted lawyer, Lorenza Guttadauro, to be present.

Seized the house of the mother of Andrea Bonafede, the man under whose identity the godfather on the run is covered


The house owned by the mother of Andrea Bonafede, the alias used by the boss Matteo Messina Denaro during his in the run.

The house is located on the corner between via Marsala and via Cusmano in Campobello di Mazara.

The ground floor apartment has two entrances.

However, the house has not been inhabited for some time.

Bonafede's mother lives in the Tre Fontane house together with one of her daughters. 

The boss's driver in the clinic: "I didn't know it was Messina Denaro"


"I didn't know it was Matteo Messina Denaro, only a madman could have accompanied him knowing that it was the boss".

This is how Giovanni Luppino, the driver of the super fugitive arrested last Monday in Palermo while accompanying him to the La Maddalena clinic, defended himself.

His defender, the lawyer Giuseppe Ferro, said this at the end of the validation hearing before the investigating magistrate which took place in the Pagliarelli prison.

Luppino, 59, an olive merchant, claimed not to know Messina Denaro, who had been introduced to him as Andrea Bonafede's brother-in-law, and to have accompanied him because he had to undergo chemotherapy.

Medical lawyer: he will clarify when he will be interrogated


"My client is confident in the judiciary and in the forces of order to ascertain the truth. I don't think Dr. Tumbarello's attitude can be different from those who intend to give clarifications who can and who are in to give".

This is what the lawyer Giuseppe Pantaleo says, appointed defense attorney by Alfonso Tumbarello.

The doctor of Campobello di Mazara prescribed medical prescriptions to his assistant Andrea Bonafede, a name however used (via identity card and health card) by the boss Matteo Messina Denaro to get treatment and carry out visits and examinations in health facilities.

Source: ansa

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