The Italian Police today located the personal car of the head of the Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, arrested on the 16th after 30 years on the run, while they investigate his life in his native Sicily (south) and his network of collaborators.
The vehicle, a black Alfa Romeo Giulietta, was found in a garage in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara, where he lived under a false identity at least until his arrest in Palermo, when he went to a clinic for treatment of colon cancer.
It has been possible to reach his personal car, according to local media, because at the time of his arrest he had his keys in his bag, with a code assigned to a license plate, and thanks to the supervision of the images from urban security cameras .
When Messina Denaro was arrested, he had been accompanied to the clinic with a different car by Giovanni Luppino, who has been jailed.
The deputy prosecutor of Palermo, Paolo Guido, has gone to the garage to coordinate the investigations.
All the belongings of the most wanted criminal in Italy since 1993 are being collected in Campobello di Mazara, very close to his hometown, Castelvetrano, and they seem to indicate that paradoxically he led a quite normal life with the false identity of Andrea Bonafede.
So far, three houses where he was hiding have been found and restaurant bills, designer clothes, jewelery and precious stones, notebooks and folders that investigators are studying for information have appeared in them.
Numerous plane tickets have also emerged to different parts of the planet, such as the United Kingdom or South America, according to local media today, and condoms, Viagra pills and various accounts that attest to that high lifestyle that he maintained.
In his hiding places he had numerous books, including a biography of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
In these houses, their decoration also draws attention, since two posters have been found, one of Don Vito Corleone, the founder of the saga of “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola and another of the Joker, the villain of Batman, and the phrase ” there’s always an exit. If you can’t find it, destroy everything.”
For the moment, no money has been found, which Messina Denaro had in large quantities, and neither has the so-called “Toto Riina file”, the documents mentioned by Justice collaborators who assure that the head of the “Corleoneses” delivered him with all the secrets of the attacks in the 90s in Italy, such as those that cost the lives of the anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
