The third "hideout" of Matteo Messina Denaro , the super-fugitive arrested on Monday after thirty years, is an empty apartment and currently for sale.
This too is located in Campobello di Mazara, in the province of Trapani, a few hundred meters from the house in vicolo San Vito identified a few hours after the blitz, in which documents with initials were found, and not far from the bunker found two days ago by the Guardia di Finanza. In the case of the latter, the owner of the house in which the shelter had been created, hidden behind the sliding bottom of a wardrobe : Errico Risalvato, brother of a loyalist of the boss convicted of mafia crimes and under investigation for a long time.
The Public Prosecutor's Office will now have to examine all the material recovered after the arrest : the diary that was in the mafia boss' purse at the time of the blitz, which would also contain reflections and pieces of letters, Messina Denaro's two mobile phones, post-its, notes and documents with acronyms, telephone numbers, names and figures that suggest a sort of memo on investments and expenses found in the apartment in vicolo San Vito and which are now being analyzed by the Ris . At the moment there would be no trace of a ledger. Among the objects was also found, in what used to be the apartment of the boss, a poster with the face of "The Godfather", the one played in the film of the same name in which the protagonist, Marlon Brando , plays the character of Don Vito Corleone .
In the meantime, the investigating magistrate of Palermo has validated the arrest in flagrante delicto of Giovanni Luppino , the man who ended up in handcuffs with the boss who was driving the car with which Messina Denaro reached the Maddalena clinic, where he was being treated.
"I didn't know it was Matteo Messina Denaro, only a madman could have accompanied him knowing that he was the boss," Luppino defended himself before the investigating judge. The olive merchant, investigated for aiding and abetting, claimed that the mafia boss had been presented to him as Andrea Bonafede's brother-in-law, with the name of "Francesco", and that he accompanied him because he had to undergo chemotherapy.
«No element can currently allow us to believe that a figure who has literally managed to spend about 30 years on the run undisturbed has surrounded himself with figures who are unaware of the tasks performed and the associated risks, and indeed, the incredible duration of this military fugitive in a decidedly opposite sense, leading us to believe that the extreme trust and bond welded with the figures of his own flankers somehow contributed to the procrastination of the time of his capture which, otherwise, could have actually occurred even in more recent times », wrote the prosecutor Piero Padova in the request for pre-trial detention in prison made against Luppino and on which the investigating judge has not yet ruled.
(Unioneonline/D)
