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The sister of the most wanted mafia boss in the world was arrested - and his secrets were revealed in the "Pizzini" she hid - voila! news

2023-03-04T02:17:26.760Z


Rosalia Messina Denaro helped her fugitive brother deliver messages using "pizzini" - notes on which he wrote instructions to members of the Mafia in Sicily - "cherry", "parmesan", "apple" and others. "We were persecuted as if we were villains, we were treated as if we were not human," he wrote. "One day history will return what was taken from us"


The arrest of Rosalia Messina Denaro, the sister of the world's most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, in Sicily March 4, 2023 (Reuters)

The sister of Italy's most wanted mafia boss who was recently jailed was arrested after police who searched her home found "pizzini" - paper notes used by her brother, described as the "last godfather of the Sicilian mafia", to give his instructions.



According to the report in the Guardian, Rosalia Messina Denaro, the sister of Matteo Messina Denaro - who was the most wanted man in Italy until his arrest on January 16 - helped her brother evade the authorities for 30 years and acted on his behalf as the "family's" Caspian, while also operating the "Pizzini" network ", thereby allowing the mafia boss to maintain ties with his organization during his long time as a fugitive criminal.

The exposed pizzini

In un pizzino gli ordini del boss, destroy the television.

Messina Denaro a sorella, se c'è pericolo appendi uno straccio #ANSA https://t.co/EpYv79y3M8 pic.twitter.com/2Vgw51tmqU

— Agenzia ANSA (@Agenzia_Ansa) March 3, 2023

"Rosalia Messina Denaro was a person who had total confidence in the boss," said Alfredo Montalto, the judge who ordered her arrest.

"She managed the Pizzini network through which Denaro gave his orders to the other associates."



Some of the Pizzini found by the Carabinieri, Italy's military police, in a house in Castelvetrano, the mafia boss's hometown on the southwest coast of Sicily, also contained the leader's outlook on life and his personal beliefs.

Denaro, who prided himself on being the head of the Sicilian mafia, saw himself as a scapegoat, a man persecuted by justice and the state.



"The fact that I have been accused of being a member of the mafia, at this point, I consider it an honor," wrote Matteo Denaro in one of the pizzas found by the police at his sister's house.

"We were persecuted as if we were villains, we were treated as if we were not part of the human race, we became an ethnic group to be wiped out. They buried our land with this lie. We, the wicked, are ... the good," Denaro wrote.

"Every time there is a new arrest, more and more people suffer because of this land. Every time they arrest someone, more and more people join our community that is not ready to accept this injustice. This is who we are, and one day, I'm convinced, all of this will be recognized and history will pay us back What they took from us in life."



The pizzini, hidden in a chair space at Denaro's sister's house, were directed at various people, including alleged members of the Mafia, some of whom had nicknames such as Condor, Cherry, Parmesan and Apple.

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Rosalia Messina Denaro (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)

The head of the Messina mafia in his arrest, about a month ago (Photo: Reuters)

Rosalia Denaro also hid Pizzano, which contained a detailed note about her brother's health.

Matteo Denaro was caught in a private clinic in Palermo, where he periodically received treatment for the tumor under the pseudonym Andrea Bonpeda.

According to Mafia whistleblowers and prosecutors, Denaro, nicknamed Diabolik - the name of a fictional thief - and Cicco - "the skinny" - is behind some of the most heinous crimes committed by the Sicilian Mafia, including the 1992 infamous bombings that killed the anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Bursalino;

and the 1996 killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster-turned-state witness, who was strangled and dissolved in acid.



Denaro is being held in a maximum security prison in the central Italian city of Laquila, where he is receiving initial chemotherapy treatment.


So far, the Carabinieri have found at least three apartments used by the mobster, including one where a closet full of clothes was used to hide a secret bunker.

Inside the hideout, prosecutors found luxury clothes, emeralds, diamonds, a poster of Francis Ford Coppola's movie "The Godfather" and several books, including biographies of Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler.

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