«Perhaps we ask for a miracle but we want to try. We ask Matteo Messina Denaro , or someone on his behalf, to let us know where our daughter is». Thus Piera Maggio and Pietro Pulizzi , parents of Denise Pipitone , the little girl who disappeared in Mazara del Vallo on 1 September 2004.
The territory of Mazara del Vallo would be in the mirror of mafia influence of the Messina Denaro clan . "We are convinced - Denise's parents continued - that he knows what happened 18 years ago, not because we hold him responsible for the fact, but because not a single leaf moved on our territory that was not known to him, even more so since it was a an extremely anomalous fact such as the kidnapping of a little girl who, due to all the deployment of the forces of order in that period, will have given a lot of annoyance to some if not himself. We ask for one last act of redemption on your part, on behalf of our daughter Denise, and on behalf of all those innocent people killed."
«When something happens in a territory that causes a great stir and it wasn't the Cosa Nostra - added Giacomo Frazzitta , Piera Maggio's lawyer speaking on the Rai2 program "Ore14" -, the mafiosi immediately try to find out . As in the case of the disappearance of Stefano and Antonio Maiorana, even if in that case the mafiosi were told lies».
The lawyer then points out: «We don't think that Messina Denaro may have been involved in Denise's disappearance, but if he commanded the mafia in the Trapani area for 30 years, then he could be aware of something . The hope is that, eventually, he will decide to partly make up for the crimes he has committed by helping justice shed light on the case. That would be nice, but it's a message put in a bottle and thrown into the ocean."
Immediately after the capture of the fugitive, Piera Maggio and her husband Piero Pulizzi wrote on Facebook: «We ask the Italian State, the magistrates who will take charge of it. After all the investigations and the dutiful ritual questions to the boss Matteo Messina Denaro, someone kindly ask the boss if, in any way, he has had any news of the kidnapping of our daughter Denise».
