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

2023-01-19T17:05:31.307Z

The godfather should have undergone a chemotherapy session in prison, then skipped pending further medical documentation. The trial was postponed to March 9. The Pg: "We hope you collaborate". Seized the house of Andrea Bonafede's mother, the alias used by the godfather. The boss's driver in the clinic: "I didn't know who he was". The planner who worked in the 'boss den'. 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 being held, 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.

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The story of the urban planner Marina Marino, for two years in Campobello di Mazara alongside the Extraordinary Commission which managed the municipality dissolved by the mafia: 'Surrounded by silence, suspicion and silence'.

The threats and the throwing of the pistol

Meanwhile, Messina Denaro's first chemotherapy session in prison has been postponed: everything was ready in the room where he will be treated, right in front of his cell in order to limit potential contacts with other prisoners, but at the last moment the boss would have requested further intervention of the doctor.

Professor Luciano Mutti, head of the university-managed department of the L'Aquila hospital, then returned to prison, who saw him today for the second time.

According to what has been learned, the doctors of the oncology department of the L'Aquila hospital are still studying the evaluations of the medical documentation held by the patient, the results of new tests and further checks to establish, at this point, when to administer chemotherapy.

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 he 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.

Luppino, assisted by his lawyer Giuseppe Ferro, defended himself before the magistrate by claiming that he did not know that the man he was accompanying was Matteo Messina Denaro.

The olive merchant explained that he had met him a few months ago and that he had been introduced to him, with the name of "Francesco", as the brother-in-law of Andrea Bonafede, the surveyor to whom the false identity card used by the super fugitive was registered .

Luppino added that he accompanied him last Monday for the first time to Palermo, where the boss had to undergo a cycle of chemotherapy, because this courtesy had been asked of him precisely because of his health conditions.

The Gip Fabio Pilato validated the arrest in flagrante delicto of Giovanni Luppinoe reserved the right to decide on the request for pre-trial detention in prison.