Italian police are rapidly cracking down at the prison community that allowed “last Godfather” Matteo Messina Denaro to are living and thrive in huge sunlight in his local Sicily for the closing 30 years — in spite of being on Italy’s maximum sought after listing.
On Monday, government arrested a suspect accused of “loaning” his establish to the Mafia boss, a 59-year-old Sicily-based surveyor named Andrea Bonafede.
Thanks to false paperwork, Messino Denaro was once ready to do such things as purchase a automotive in individual, move to the grocery store and search remedy in a personal clinical facility, the place he even took a selfie with a surgeon.
Messino Denaro is recently being held in a high-security jail in L’Aquila, central Italy.
He has most cancers and is “seriously ill”, in line with the physician who was once treating him prior to the arrest.
Police have already discovered and searched 3 hideouts in Sicily, two in Campobello di Mazara and one in Trapani, the place he’s understood to have lived a “normal life” up till his 16 January arrest in Palermo.
In his hideouts, police discovered jewelry, pricey eating place receipts, drugs to fortify male sexual efficiency, as neatly Francis Ford Coppola’s “Godfather” memorabilia.
Messina Denaro is scheduled to look prior to a court docket on 9 March.
He’s interesting his existence sentence over the homicide of 2 outstanding Italian Mafia prosecutors in 1992, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in addition to their bodyguards.
He has, alternatively, additionally been accused of ordering or wearing out various homicides — a minimum of 20, in line with the Italian press.
There are nonetheless 4 different high-profile gangsters sought after by means of Italian police recently at huge. People related no longer best to the Sicilian Mafia, but in addition to the Sardinian, Calabrian and Neapolitan “clans”.
