A voicemail from the Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, recently arrested in Palermo (south) after 30 years on the run, in which he rants against the commemorations by the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falconefor whose murder he was sentenced to life in prison, is causing this Sunday outrage in Italy.
“I am here, stuck, with all four wheels on the ground. That is, not in the literal sense, but blocked because they are on the asphalt and I cannot move. For the commemoration of this shit”, is heard in the message from the head of Cosa Nostrasent by Whatsap to a woman with whom he coincided in the hospital and revealed by the local media.
The two had become “friends” and exchanged phone numbers, as the woman explained to the Carabineros (militarized police), during chemotherapy sessions at the Maddalena clinic where Matteo Messina Denaro He was arrested on January 16, when he went to treat colon cancer.
“I’m still in shock,” the woman explained to investigators a few days ago, assuring that when she saw him on television “I couldn’t believe it, he said he was a businessman, divorced and with three children, he didn’t seem like he wanted to hide at all.” according to the same sources.
Among the voice messages that the woman gave to the police was the one she sent her on May 23 to justify her delay in one of the chemo sessions and in which she referred to falconesymbol of the Italian fight against the mafia, whose death was the 30th anniversary that day.
“Damn it”says in the message, and concluded “They broke my balls.”
In another message, Messina Denaro, who did not want to reveal her identity to the woman, told her about her illness and confided in her. “I feel abandoned. Like a stray dog with a broken leg in the middle of a puddle on this Christmas night. All of this to me is the squalid need for affection. But is it right to beg for affection?” she wrote.
In one of the messages, the capo, who told the woman he was a divorced businessman, refers to a wish expressed by his mother. “There is Anna, who would be the girl who is with my mother. Last night he was looking for me and found a piece of paper written in my mother’s handwriting. The message was for me and it says that when she’s dead, at her funeral (but who’s to say I’ll die after her, she doesn’t know but I do), she wants the band to play one tune, the Kaiser’s March, the What they do in Vienna for New Year’s Eve. And now that you want this, you have to do it, because People’s wishes are fulfilled.”
Among the multiple life sentences to which Messina Denaro has been sentenced are the one he received for order the murders of Falcone and his colleague and friend Paolo Borsellino in the midst of the wave of attacks and deaths with which Cosa Nostra sowed the country at that time.
On May 23, 1992, they were murdered. falcone and his wife, the magistrate Francesca Morvillealong with three members of his escort with 500 kilos of explosives on the highway between the airport and the Sicilian capital, and less than two months later, on July 19, Bosellino and five officers died in another brutal attack.
According to the investigators, who have found three houses where Messina Denaro was hiding in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazaravery close to his hometown, castelvetranothe mafia boss led a fairly normal life with the false identity of Andrea Bonafede.
They have featured restaurant bills, designer clothing, jewelry and precious stones, notebooks and folders that researchers study for information.
In addition, with the woman who took the audios to the police, the mafia boss had also strengthened ties with other patients at the clinic, he even took a selfie with a surgeon from Magdalena, according to the media.
(With information from EFE)
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Source-www.infobae.com