life and death, the great categories of existence, are not defined the same everywhere, clearly. In Sicily, for example, in the Jargon of the Mafia, distinguish between dead and dead dead. Even those who no longer plays a role, is dead. A entmachteter Boss, for example, without the entourage. Dead in the conventional sense, only the “morti morti,” the dead dead. In the case of Matteo Messina Denaro, the super-boss from Castelvetrano, province of Trapani, you can also call it “u siccu”, the Thin, seems to be the whole range between complete life and totem of death.
He is Italy’s biggest Enigma. “L’invisibile” is Invisible, as is the title of a book about him. Nobody wants to have seen him in the last ten, twenty years. He was still alive, and two hundred Carabinieri and police officers, seeking full-time, according to him, would be MMD now 56 years old. MMD is the acronym of his Name. The FBI considers him the most dangerous Criminals to the Mexican drug boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. But that does not matter, you do in New York the process. In Palermo, you would say: “El Chapo” is dead.
A Criminal is a legend
Each Time, when in Sicily, a gang is blown, it means that you have occupied the “Cupola”, the apex body of the Cosa Nostra, new, remember, the Italians Matteo Messina Denaro. Last week, when police arrested Settimo Mineo, an 80-year-old jeweler from Palermo with a long criminal record, and 45 of his alleged followers. In terms of Size Messina Denaros all other like small fish.
In the Newspapers, always the same photos of the “Thin”, showing him as a young man appear. It’s especially famous for a portrait with sunglasses, slightly forward-tilted head, as he must be in his mid-twenties – very glamorous, a touch of James Dean. Several years ago, a similar photo popped up all of a sudden, he is probably even younger: in the blue double-breasted jacket to a wedding, with Ray-Ban and Rolex watch, a cigarette, a Marlboro red. The two pictures under his Fama as “sciupafemmine”, as a Playboy. He has become a pop icon, a legend.
a number of attractive mistress
Messina Denaro is an atypical Boss. He is an Atheist, where else are all called to God. He went through no initiation rite of the Cosa Nostra. He likes art and archaeology, expensive clothes and cars. He reads, apparently, Daniel Pennac, and Virgil, as an exchange of letters with the former mayor of Castel proves to Castelvetrano, he wrote the letters because even. And he is not married, the father of a daughter. It him is said to have paternities and beautiful beloved in large numbers. As in the case of a Star.
But where the hell is he hiding? Maybe he never went away from Castelvetrano. Maybe he will be as revered as a Robin Hood of His, protected by a network of accomplices, of businessmen and politicians, and perhaps also from Parts of the Italian secret service. In 2010, he should be in the football stadium of Palermo has been seen, the game Palermo against Sampdoria. He lives in Caracas, in Tunis, in Switzerland, in Germany? All of the destinations on rails time, in one Form or another. Or in Spain, where he used to be often on the go? In 2006, he had surgery in Barcelona in the eyes, he registered at the hospital with his real personal data: name, date of birth, place of birth. He felt untouchable? Or put someone as a false trail for him?
Matteo came as the son of a boss to the world. Francesco Messina Denaro, the “called Don Ciccio”, was closely associated with the most powerful family in the city, the D’Alìs of the Banca Sicula, which gave him lands, all the doors opened. The father gave his favorite son the Business: extortion, infiltration of local politics, the murders, the drug trade. Also, the father was regarded for decades as “latitante”, as volatile so, what sounds in the duration of the flight as a joke. Without protection, without an active Look the other way, without the big Silence – it would be impossible for so long to disappear. Home especially since. “Don Ciccio” died of a heart attack in his bed in Castelvetrano. His wife had the body in front of the gates of the city. They laid him under an olive tree, covered him with an expensive blanket from rare black sheep’s fur, down to the polished shoes looking out. In both jacket pockets of the Dead wore a Holy figurine, the Bishop of Palermo sent a priest for the last passage.
By warrant under submerged
That was in 1998, the beloved son was there. Matteo Messina Denaro in 1993 was submerged, as the investigators issued an arrest warrant against him, first, for four counts of murder. In the case of all the major assassinations of the time he’s supposed to be, in the case of the bombings on the continent, in the attacks on Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. He is reported to have said: “With all the people I’ve killed, you could fill an entire cemetery.” The Trapanesi had allied with the violent Corleonesi. With Totò Riina, the Boss of the bosses, they called “u curtu”, the Short, or “la bestia”. And with Bernardo Provenzano also known as “Binnu u tratturi”, the tractor. Provenzano and Riina were farmers. As long as they ruled, was the glamorous “Thin” a number of the Cosa Nostra.
Greg took As they found in the hideout of the “pizzini” of Messina Denaro. So you call the small pieces of paper full of Codes, with which the Mafiosi communicate with each other. MMD was “Alessio”. Until today, it is a mystery why Provenzano kept the “pizzini”. Messina Denaro developed the method further, extended the chain of the Bearer, and refined the Codes. Hardly the papers were read, they had to be burned. The police filmed two older gentlemen, one with tape wrapped “pizzino” for Messina Denaro, under a rock on the Land. High, sun-dried Grass all around. Maybe that was just the first stage of a long journey. Closer they came to Messina Denaro never.
merry chase
Teresa Principato, the Prosecutor of Palermo, spent eight years of her life with the hunt for the super boss, before it was recently removed to Rome. You had a cousin, uncle, nephew arrested, allegedly a business partner, befriended art dealer. The brother, formerly a clerk in the Bank of the D’Alìs, sitting in a high-security prison under the harshest detention regime, the so-called 41 bis. Scorched earth, so Principatos strategy was called. You brought nothing.
In the Milieu, one wondered why the Boss was like that, without reacting. Totò Riina, the “beast” would have the state with assassinations punished, he would have let judges and police officers executed. But maybe this is also part of the Plan. The new Mafia kill as rarely as possible, so that the state will allow the top management level alone. Principato said: “Messina Denaro enjoys protection from the highest point. He moves, how he wants to, comes, goes.” Seemingly without a trace.
Also, the phantom image, which produced the police of Messina Denaro, is now seven years old. There was already speculation that “Diabolik,” as he is called, left a new face on the head transplant. Messina Denaro was large and rich. The entire economy of the province he is supposed to. master: supermarkets, shopping malls, Restaurants, resorts He should produce wine, olive oil, cheese. And Wind Energy. Riina called him contemptuously as “the one with the wind masts”. Ten billion euros, his fortune was estimated, and since the profit from the drug was not attributed to trade at all. Ten billion, that would make MMD a of the richest Italians, maybe even the richest of all.
There is a lack of political will
With each new arrest in his Entourage, it says: “The noose is tightening.” Soon he was delivered. For years, it’s the name of the. Recently, at a book presentation in Rome, Federico Cafiero De Raho, chief of the national Anti-Mafia authority asked from the audience: “Presidente, when are you Messina snaps Denaro?” In the full hall laughter broke out spontaneously. Of course, the people laughed mainly because it was naïve to think that De Raho would talk openly about the Investigation. Laughed, but it was also because the long-run is a joke. 25 years, a quarter of a century. The Supreme mafia hunter said: “We are close to him, I can’t say more.” Close? It is not long since De Raho said it was unheard of that a as Messina Denaro is still free. There was no lack of political will: “The policy is distracted, thinking of other things.”
In Castelvetrano but just think of the “Thin”. The density of police officers is so large as in no other city of Italy. Not a square meter, would not be bugged. But the Ghost is not only invisible, it is apparently also very quiet.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 13.12.2018, 20:10 PM
