"They're looking for me, it's over." Shortly before being arrested , Matteo Messina Denaro had understood everything : seeing the carabinieri approaching, he embraced his driver and said these words. When the Ros soldier asked him what his name was, he immediately said his name.
Giovanni Luppino, officially an agricultural entrepreneur and actually a very loyal boss, told the investigating judge Giovanni Luppino for whom prison was ordered on charges of aiding and abetting and procuring non-compliance with the sentence.
Luppino said he did not know that man was Matteo Messina Denaro: " I met him months ago under the name of Francesco, Andrea Bonafede introduced him to me (the man who lent his identity to the boss) and for months I haven't seen it . Then he came Sunday night to tell me to take him to the nursing home and I did. It was only when the carabinieri stopped us that I learned of his identity."
Lies for the prosecutors, who, moreover, found two mobile phones on him in aerial mode, a switchblade and some documents. Nonsense also according to the investigating judge who, in the order for pre-trial detention in prison, writes: " The version of the facts provided by the suspect is grossly untrue , since it is not credible that someone, without warning, shows up at a stranger's house at five in the morning to ask him the courtesy of accompanying him to the hospital for scheduled visits, in the absence of a situation of necessity and urgency. But beyond any logical consideration, it is the investigative findings that provide the decisive data, to the extent that the possession of the knife and the two cell phones - both kept off and in airplane mode - suggest that Luppino was so aware of the identity of the Messina Money to walk armed and resort to a maximum security demeanor to avoid possible telephone tracing ».
Meanwhile, the carpet searches continue in Campobello di Mazara, a town where two hideouts and a bunker used by the mafia boss to hide documents and valuables were found.
In the last hideout used by the boss, you also find papers being examined by prosecutors, post-its with names and numbers. In addition to the painting with the image of Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, there was also a color painting of the Joker in the version played by Joaquin Phoenix. Below, another small picture with an inscription: «There is always a way out, but if you don't find it, you'll break through everything» .
Yesterday the boss underwent the first chemo session in prison after his capture . «The setting up of the clinic is a virtuous model because it allows you to avoid risks and allows for a huge saving of resources. Furthermore, nothing has been diverted from normal assistance», explain health sources from the L'Aquila ASL.
(Unioneonline/L)