The hiding place, at least in recent times, of the considered last head of Cosa Nostrathe Sicilian mafia, Matthew Messina Moneyarrested this Monday after 30 years on the run, was located at the entrance of Campobello di Mazara, in the province of Trapani, just eight kilometers from his hometown of Castelvetrano: a normal apartment in an anonymous building without any great luxuries.
The house was located and searched during the night and this town was reached after the arrest, also this Monday, of the person who accompanied the Messina Money to the Palermo clinic where he was arrested and where he received treatment for the cancer he suffered.
The companion and driver of the car in which he was traveling Messina Money was identified as Giovanni Luppino, an olive producer and native of Campobello di Mazara, a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the province of Trapani, and where the investigations were concentrated after the arrest of the mafia boss.
This apartment is located in a small cul-de-sac perpendicular to Via Emanuele II through which you enter this town, located just 15 minutes by car from Castelvetrano, where he was born Messina Money.
“The Campobello di Mazara hideout is actually a house in which Matthew Messina Money lived permanently for some time”, said the commander of the Special Corps of the Carabinieri, General Pasquale Angelosanto, in an interview on the “SkyTg24” channel.
For the moment, according to the Italian media, no weapons have been found, but some perfumes and designer clothes have been found, which the “capo” of the “mandament” (as the territories in which the Cosa Nostra divides Sicilia) from Trapani, such as the watch valued at 35,000 euros that he was wearing at the time of his capture.
In search of the secrets of Cosa Nostra
What the investigators are looking for are the “secret” documents of Cosa Nostra inherited from Toto Riina, the previous head of heads of Cosa Nostrawith the details of the attacks in the 1990s and the alleged negotiation between the State and the mafia, as well as other data that may help to identify the protection network that helped him hide for 30 years and that the Palermo prosecutor , Maurizio De Lucia, defined as members “of the mafia bourgeoisie”.
Messina Moneyconsidered the last godfather, heir to the most ruthless Cosa Nostra and a fugitive since 1993, was arrested on Monday, January 16, in the vicinity of the La Maddalena private hospital in the Sicilian capital, where he was attending to treat colon cancer that he suffered from for a year under the false identity of Andra Bonafede, 59 years old.
According to the Italian media, Messina Money landed last night on a military flight at the Pescara airport, in the central region of Abruzzo, where the most accredited hypothesis is that he was transferred to the maximum security prison in the capital “L’Aquila”, where a hundred of inmates under the so-called “41 bis” regime, in which it is impossible to have contacts with the outside world. (With information from EFE)