Another arrest as part of the investigation into the fugitive of Matteo Messina Denaro.
Laura Bonafede, teacher and daughter of the historic boss of Campobello di Mazara Leonardo Bonafede ended up in handcuffs: aiding and abetting and procured non-compliance with sentences aggravated by having facilitated Cosa Nostra are the crimes alleged against the woman.
The Ros blitz started this morning. Laura Bonafede for years would have been the woman of the former Scarlet Pimpernel and would be part of the network of accomplices who covered Messina Denaro during the fugitive .
Already emerged during the investigation into the fugitive of the godfather and immortalized by video cameras while talking to the boss at the Campobello supermarket two days before his arrest, Bonafede allegedly provided for the fugitive's daily life needs, did the shopping for him to get supplies fearing that he might be infected by Covid and could not go out, he would have shared an encrypted language with him to protect the identity of other protagonists of the boss's protection network and looked after his safety with obsessive attention.
According to the investigators, therefore , the teacher was one of the pivots around which Messina Denaro's clandestinity revolved as early as the mid-1990s . Cousin of the surveyor Andrea Bonafede who lent her identity to the boss, cousin also of the other Andrea Bonafede, municipal employee who provided Messina Denaro with the medical prescriptions necessary for the therapies to be faced for the treatment of cancer, and cousin of Emanuele Bonafede, one of the godfather's sutlers already arrested with his wife.
Laura Bonafede is married to Salvatore Gentile, a mafioso who is in jail, sentenced to life imprisonment for having committed two heinous murders on the orders of Messina Denaro himself .
The teacher's daughter, Laura Gentile, is also being investigated, also considered one of Matteo Messina Denaro's main supporters . The prosecutor had asked for house arrest for the girl, but the investigating judge rejected the request due to lack of serious indications of guilt while stigmatizing the behavior of the young woman, linked to the mafia boss by a strong relationship of affection. The boss, Martina and her mother would also have shared periods of coexistence during Messina Denaro's fugitive.
The Carabinieri del Ros, after the fugitive's arrest, found a letter written by Martina to the mafia boss which reveals, according to the investigating judge, "an almost filial affection towards Messina Denaro, an affection, moreover, intensely reciprocated by the latter, who appreciated above all, Martina's adherence to the mafia values of her grandfather Leonardo Bonafede ».
(Unioneonline/L)