(ANSA) - PALERMO, FEBRUARY 15 - He speaks of "serious conditions", he doubts that he will be subjected to adequate treatment.
Lorenza Guttadauro, nephew and lawyer of boss Matteo Messina Denaro is worried about the health of her uncle, the mafia boss in jail since January 16 after thirty years on the run.
A dry statement, hers, followed by the response from the prison of L'Aquila in which the godfather of Castelvetrano is detained under the 41 bis regime and undergoes chemotherapy.
"The patient's general condition is good", commented health and prison sources.
Suffering from colon cancer, for which he was operated on twice (one of which for liver metastases) while he was wanted, the boss undergoes chemotherapy in an ad hoc clinic set up in front of his cell.
Doctors and supervisors of the super prison therefore argue that the lawyer's words "do not correspond to the clinical picture".
"The patient is followed up punctually and is undergoing outpatient neoplastic therapies that are compatible with his disease", replied the doctors replying to Guttadauro who had stigmatized the fact that the treatments were carried out in prison and not in a clinic.
"If hospitalization had served, he would have received treatment in the hospital" explain health sources who do not hide a certain irritation.
According to what has been learned, after the second chemo, administered on February 6, the boss would have had no problems related to side effects.
That the mafia boss is not in bad health had also appeared to the magistrates who, last Monday, went to question him.
To the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy Paolo Guido, the boss would have seemed clear-headed and non-suffering.
An historic interrogation conducted by the two prosecutors who coordinated the investigation that led to the capture of Matteo Messina Denaro, which lasted an hour.
Polite, not at all hostile, the boss answered the questions of the magistrates who contested the new charges.
The receiving of the pistol with abraded serial number discovered in a cavity of a kitchen cabinet in the hideout of vicolo San Vito in Campobello di Mazara, where Messina Denaro spent the last months on the run, the crime of impersonation - the boss used the identity of the surveyor Andrea Bonafede - and having falsified the identity cards (at least 5) always found in the apartment.
Messina Denaro would have tried to downsize his role, denying that he is the massacre mafia leader that everyone believes.
An inevitable face to face, that of Monday,
which would not have brought news of any kind to the work of the prosecutors.
Sure, it doesn't seem like starting a collaboration with justice.
The lawyer, willing to talk about her uncle's health, has no intention of saying anything about the interrogation.
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