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2023-01-23T14:02:02.645Z


To explain the strategy that led them to arrest Matteo Messina Denaro, the investigators use an image: we drained him of the water that allowed him to remain free for so long


Water, vital liquid, are the flankers, men of honor or unsuspected who, taking care of the daily life of the godfather of Castelvetrano, finding him refuge, building his secret bunker, bringing him the money that has allowed him not only to go on, but also not to give up the luxury he has always loved, they have protected, covered and supported him.

It seems like an intuitive, elementary method.

It is not.

Indeed, those who, like the former assistant prosecutor of Palermo Giuseppe Pignatone, have successfully experimented this method with another excellent wanted man, the Corleonese boss Bernardo Provenzano, have often been accused of thinking of chicken thieves, shepherds instead of aiming at real cover-ups, to institutional collusions, to Spectre, in short, that knows everything and moves everything.

Criticisms often came from magistrates, which however did not influence the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia and his deputy, Paolo Guido, who had been hunting Messina Denaro for 15 years and who tried to dry up the water that fed the mafia boss Trapani has never stopped.

Thus, over time, figureheads have ended up in prison who, by laundering the boss's billions, have made a fortune, apparently small fish,

sisters, brothers, nephews and brothers-in-law of Diabolik, nickname with which Messina Denaro was called in Cosa Nostra.

An operation that hit the carpet.

And that, once again, paid off.

Because, if you are a hunted man, you can only entrust your life to those who are faithful to you.

The proof?

Diabolik was hiding in Campobello di Mazara, eight kilometers from his town, at the home of a nephew of an old mafioso and turned to his entourage to keep going.  

The method, therefore, worked and we arrived on the trail of the ex-fugitive thanks to the half-sentences intercepted and whispered by family members, that vital water in which the boss floated for 30 years.

Only hinted words that confirmed the suspicions of the prosecutors: Matteo Messina Denaro is a sick man.

So he needs treatment.

An essential input which, through a widespread investigation also based on the database of the Ministry of Health with information on patients compatible with the godfather by age, origin and pathologies, triggered the blitz.  

Matteo Messina Denaro did not give himself up.

Maybe he was tired of running away, maybe he was depressed because he knew he wouldn't have long to live, but behind his capture, according to the adjunct Paolo Guido, there is no obscure negotiation.

“The only thing he couldn't avoid was the disease.

Health is a democratic fact,” he said.

That's exactly how it went. 

Source: ansa

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