The face of Matteo Messina Denaro reappears in the video, the most wanted fugitive in Italy, untraceable since June 2, 1993.
The video showing the face of the mafia boss, also known as Diabolik and with the aliases Alessio and Testa Dell'Acqua, taken by a security camera, was broadcast in the evening edition of Tg2.
The images were recorded by a camera in the street in the province of Agrigento, date back to December 2009 and are the only ones that investigators and investigators have since 1993 onwards.
The video is in the possession of the investigators of the Central Crime Directorate of the Police. In the images, which last a few seconds, you can see a blue SUV driving along a dirt road in the middle of the countryside.
There are two people on board: the driver and, in the passenger seat, a balding man with glasses. According to investigators and investigators, the service says, that man is Matteo Messina Denaro.
The mafia leader was filmed a few hundred meters from the house of Pietro Campo, boss of the Valley of the Temples and a loyalist of the super-flotilla, who at that time was protected by the Agrigento families and perhaps was on his way to a meeting with the local mafia leaders.
Messina Denaro is the mystery boss, wanted all over the world for mafia association, murder, massacre, devastation, detention and port of explosive materials, theft. Unreachable because he enjoyed a dense network of protection in the Trapani area also thanks to the enormous availability of money, a network of connivance composed above all of his closest family members and those acquired who gradually fell like skittles, overwhelmed by judicial inquiries.
But no trace of him for 28 long years. There are those who say he is in Dubai, or in Morocco, or that he has always remained in Sicily, but there are also those who claim that he may even be dead.
Are you still in charge? According to the latest report by Dia Sì, "he is still the most charismatic criminal figure of the Trapani mafia". Head of the Castelvetrano district, "despite being in hiding, he remains the main point of reference for deciding the issues of greatest interest to the organization, for settling disputes and for appointing the leaders of the mafia groups".
La Dia also underlines that "although he continues to benefit from the loyalty of many associates, there are signs of intolerance. Some affiliates would in fact be dissatisfied with a command management too busy to cure the increasingly problematic hiding of the boss, also due to the constant investigative action largely aimed at hitting the safety net ".
In fact, numerous supporters have been arrested, as well as the billionaire confiscations carried out against people who gravitate to his circle.
(Unioneonline / L)