Like all fugitive Mafia historians, forced to find a way to communicate despite life in hiding, Matteo Messina Denaro also used 'pizzini'.
It emerges from the investigation by the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy Paolo Guido which today led to the arrest of the boss's sister, Rosalia, a real collector of her brother's tickets.
He dozens of pizzini discovered after the arrest of the former fugitive.
Messages rolled up, sealed with adhesive tape, often wrapped in small packets, and addressed to recipients indicated with code names of "Strawberry (nickname of sister Rosalia ed), Strawberry, Condor, Cherry, Department, Parmesan, Sick, Complicated, Apple ".
The pizzini were conveyed through a more or less long chain of loyalists,
which the boss himself, in his writings, defined as 'mediaries'.
In the hitherto even more impenetrable system of the fugitive than that of the other leaders, however, there was a flaw.
For years Messina Denaro has taken a thousand precautions, first of all that of leaving no trace of the tickets which were rigorously destroyed after reading.
This time, however, the boss was the first not to observe the rule "having the need to converse in shorter terms and with fewer precautions with his family members, - writes the investigating judge - and sometimes to keep mail, especially outgoing mail, such as reminder of the innumerable chores that were brought before him".
An error that was also committed by her sister Rosalia who, we read in the precautionary measure, "
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The pizzini written by Rosalia Messina Denaro - Primopiano
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It was known that relations with the natural daughter Lorenza of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro were not good.
The proof is in a pizzino of the mafia boss found with her sister, Rosalia, who was arrested today.
by the carabinieri.
The mafia boss says he read the obituary that the granddaughter of the mafioso Leonardo Bonafede had done after her grandfather's death.
"Ah, this girl grew up without a father, her father was arrested when she was very young", says Messina Denaro.
"According to my calculations, she is slightly older than Lorenza, therefore the same generation, and they certainly know each other because they went to the same high school in the same years. What I know about this girl: she grew up with her mother, she studied, she went to high school scientific, then she graduated in architecture I think, and today she works using her degree.
- she explains- She was always engaged to the same guy a couple of years ago she got married to the same, and last summer she had a baby girl.
I told you her story because she did the obituary, but I could tell you the story of many with their father absent and of the same generation, because I know of all those who lack their father". "Well, - he blurts out - no one ended up like Lorenza, they're all settled, what do I mean?
It is the environment in which you grow up that shapes you, and she grew up very badly". Referring to a sentence from the obituary in which Bonafede says she is honored to belong to her grandfather, the boss concludes: "the absence of the father is not in itself ' cause of educational degeneration, it is only Lorenza who has degenerated in her depths, the others I know of have all grown honestly".
