The carabinieri del Ros and the Palermo prosecutor's office have identified the hideout of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro , arrested yesterday after 30 years on the run, as he was preparing - under a false name - to pay a visit to the Maddalena clinic in Palermo.
The "den" where the Cosa Nostra superboss was hiding has been identified in Campobello di Mazara, in the province of Trapani.
This is the town where Giovanni Luppino lives, the one who according to the investigators would be his right hand man and driver, who ended up in handcuffs together with the mafia boss during the raid on the Palermo clinic.
The hiding place, according to what has been learned, is located in the inhabited center of the town, which has about 11 thousand inhabitants. Campobello, among other things, is only 8 kilometers from Castelvetrano, the town of origin of Messina Denaro and his family.
The house used by the boss was searched inch by inch throughout the night, in the presence of the deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido, who coordinates the investigation into Messina Denaro together with the prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia.
Several pentiti have said that the godfather from Trapani was the custodian of the treasure of Totò Riina , and of top secret documents that the Corleonese boss kept in his hiding place before his arrest.
While the boss was transferred to Abruzzo – the doors of the maximum security prison in L'Aquila could open for him – Alfonso Tumbarello, 70, the doctor who was treating "Andrea Bonafede", was entered in the register of suspects fictitious name of Messina Denaro.
Tumbarello is from Campobello di Mazara and was a general practitioner in the town for decades, until last December, when he retired. Until a few months ago, Andrea Bonafede, 59, resident in Campobello di Mazara, was the real doctor and would have prescribed medical prescriptions in the name of the patient. Yesterday the carabinieri searched the houses of Campobello, Tre Fontane and the former office of the doctor who was also interrogated.
(Unioneonline/lf)
