Relationship in prison between professor and 26 year old transferred from 41 bis. A prisoner discovers them and undergoes two punitive expeditions: 8 under investigation

Love in prison, with beating. A story with both scabrous and violent features was reconstructed by the Paduan public prosecutor Benedetto Roberti , who investigated eight people , including a mathematics teacher who had access to the Due Palazzi prison in Padua , where he held lessons for the prisoners. A romantic relationship was born behind bars between the teacher from Padua and Paolo Gatto , 26 years old, from Messina, son of a Sicilian boss detained in 41 bis. Hard prison had also been foreseen for Paolo, initially detained in Tolmezzo , after being convicted of attempted murder aggravated by the mafia method, robbery and possession of weapons. The regime was then modified and so he was able to obtain a transfer to Padua , with the possibility of following school courses .

There the spark struck with the teacher, but the two wanted to keep the relationship secret. What happened, however, according to the prosecution's hypothesis, was that an inmate had caught them in intimate attitudes, threatening to tell everything to the management of the prison. Thus two punitive expeditions were organized in May 2023. The first time the inmate was beaten by Gatto himself, together with two other companions. On the second occasion, another 4 prisoners were called into action. They were in the gym and the victim had been hit with clubs and tools . The violence was such that he suffered a fractured femur.

The instigator, identified as Gatto, was responsible for some text messages sent to the mathematics teacher from a cell phone that he could not have had. After the second punitive expedition, investigations began and the prisoners were transferred. The officers had seen everything through CCTV , but were unable to prevent the beating. Gatto thus ended up in Montorio prison, just outside Verona , where in August he received a couple of visits from the teacher. At the end of the second interview the woman was blocked and she had to hand over her cell phone to the prison officers , appointed by the Padua Prosecutor's Office to carry out the search. The messages exchanged with the prisoner were thus discovered , together with some top-ups of the clandestine cell phone. The two had discussed the retaliation against the inconvenient witness and the teacher had explained that she had tried to avoid the man's transfer to Verona, through the channels of the voluntary associations that operate at Due Palazzi. The two lovers are under investigation for undue access to communication devices by prisoners, while Gatto and his companions are accused of aggravated personal injury under various charges .

26 years old and already in 41 bis ?

yes, he was charged with crimes aggravated by mafia methods

oggi è la festa di San Lucia (decembre 13), una principessa di Sicilia (Palermo). il legendo dei occhi per occhi e vendetta. una storia antica. ho sperato che io potreebe venuto festigga

the day of memories for st. lucia, enjoy your festa.

Palermo: no to plea bargaining for the Cosa Nostra councilor and cashier
December 19, 2023
The Palermo general prosecutor's office said no to the concordat, i.e. to the plea bargaining on appeal, for the former criminal lawyer Angela Porcello , struck off the register after her arrest for mafia association as part of the raid that began on 2 February 2021. Her lawyer Giuseppe Scozzari , in exchange for renouncing some grounds of appeal, asked to obtain a reduction of the sentence. At first instance, on 6 December last year, the Palermo magistrate, Paolo Magro , inflicted 15 years and 4 months in prison on her.

The woman has repeatedly tried to undertake the path of collaboration with the justice system but was, however, "rejected" due to the inconsistency of her statements. The maxi "Xydi" operation, moreover, shed light on the latest network of supporters of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro , arrested last January 16 after 30 years on the run and who died of a serious illness in recent weeks. The main character of the operation is the former criminal lawyer. Twenty years were inflicted, however, on the mafia entrepreneur Giancarlo Buggea , from Campobello di Licata, former partner of Angela Porcello , already convicted in recent years in the "Ghost" investigation. The professional and her partner would have managed the affairs of the clan and provided for the economic support of the gang.

The professional would have exploited her activity first of all to meet the boss Giuseppe Falsone at 41 bis and convey his messages from prison but not only: Angela Porcello would have acted as "cashier" of the district by promoting and organizing a series of meetings with associates also from other provinces. The investigation would also have revealed the members of the new Stidda who would have opposed the Cosa Nostra family. Also hypothesize a series of extortions, particularly in the agricultural brokerage sector.

Blitz in Mazara del Vallo and a Messina Denaro hideout appears in Tunisia

PALERMO – The request was explicit. A hideout was needed for Matteo Messina Denaro. Not around the corner, but in Tunisia . There is also this story in the raid by the Carabinieri of the ROS and the provincial command of Trapani which this morning led three people to prison in Mazara del Vallo. They are the Mazarese entrepreneur Giovanni Vassallo , 71 years old, who was under house arrest, Emilio Alario, 61 years old from Palermo , and Giuseppe Lodato , 32 years old from Mazara.

The African trail
In the reconstruction of the life and affairs of the godfather who died last September, the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy Paolo Guido would have identified an old African lead . It would have been Domenico Scimonelli who took action to find a safe refuge for the then fugitive . Until his arrest, Scimonelli was an unsuspected wine entrepreneur at the helm of a consortium and capable of obtaining important recognition at specialized fairs. Then his dark soul as a supporter of Matteo Messina Denaro and even instigator of a murder committed in 2009 came out. He had business between Rome and Milan, but also in Switzerland, in Lugano.

The Tunisian presence of Castelvetrano's godfather has been investigated in the past. Ever since 2010 the African country was referenced in one of the many anonymous reports received during the years of hiding. There was talk of the boss's life "in the warm warmth of the Mazarese domestic hearths" but also of the "shuttle between Torretta and Tunisia with the bread-shaped dinghy".

The investigative leads are much more serious and concrete. There are traces of the fugitive in a foreign land. Don Ciccio Messina Denaro, Matteo's father, also went to Tunisia by dinghy. A few years ago the ROS carabinieri moved to the African country following the business in the fish processing sector of the family of the Brancaccio boss, Giuseppe Guttadauro . Giuseppe Guttadauro's brother Filippo, is Messina Denaro's brother-in-law (he married her sister Rosalia) and is serving a white life sentence . Maria Mesi, one of the fugitive's old flames, worked for the Guttadauros.

Mafia life

Vassallo, former partner of Giuseppe Grigoli, an entrepreneur who, thanks to his relationships with the godfather of Castelvetrano, built an empire in the food distribution sector from a small shopkeeper, would have been part of the network of loyalists who managed Messina Denaro's communications and would have contributed to financing his inaction.

Not just the godfather's escape. The blitz reconstructs contacts between those arrested with leading figures in the Mazara del Vallo district: Vito Mangiarracina, Vito Gondola, Antonino Cuttone, Giovan Battista Agate, Luca Burzotta, Dario Messina. And then there are the common affairs of Cosa Nostra: from intermediation in the purchase and sale of an agricultural land, with a commission set at 2% to the interest in hiring manpower in a company that had been awarded work for the Campobello purification plant in Mazara, from intervention in a judicial procedure to take over land from a bankrupt company to intervention to settle a debt in favor of a mafia protectee.

Mafia, in Caltanissetta the carabinieri hit Niscemi's family: they were planning murder
December 21, 2023

(LaPresse) Anti-mafia blitz by the Carabinieri coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Caltanissetta against the Niscemi family, active in that area through the commission, among other things, of multiple crimes against the person and against property, as well as in the of possession of firearms. A precautionary custody order was carried out against 29 people. In particular, on the basis of the serious indications found by the investigating judge during the preliminary investigations, the planned (and almost carried out) murder of an entrepreneur who, years earlier, had reported an extortion attempt. The alleged execution of this murder was blocked thanks also to the careful monitoring by the Carabinieri coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Caltanissetta.

among the arrested in the anti-mafia operation "Mondo Opposto" Alberto Musto, reputed boss of Niscemi family and capomandamento of Gela; the 29 people arrested (included a policeman and a carabinieri official) are charged with mafia-type association, extortion, attempted murder, arson, theft and other crimes.

Mafia, new war between clans foiled: nine arrested between Catania and Agrigento

CATANIA – On the delegation of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Catania, over one hundred carabinieri carried out, in the Province of Catania and in that of Agrigento, nine arrests of crime suspects, some of which were intended for people also linked by family ties to exponents of top of the “Santapaola-Ercolano” family.

As part of the operation called "Leonidi", the crimes of mafia-type association, detention for the purpose of dealing in narcotic substances, illegal possession and carrying of a firearm are contested , with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act to facilitate the activity of the mafia association to which they belong.

A murder against Pietro Gagliano (indicated in the conversations of the suspects as belonging to the opposing “Cappello – Bonaccorsi” clan) by some prominent figures of the “Santapaola-Ercolano” mafia association was foiled. A crime that would have further sparked a war between clans.

Mafia Bosses in TV Audience: Audacious Assassination Attempt on Italian Talk Show Host Revealed

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Graviano wants to read books on the mafia in prison, Cassation accepts request
December 22, 2023
The Supreme Court postponed the order of the Court of Reggio Calabria which had placed the block on three volumes
The Court of Cassation annulled with postponement the order with which the Court of Reggio Calabria, last July, had blocked three books on the mafia purchased by the Brancaccio boss Giuseppe Graviano through the company inside the Terni prison where he is detained under 41 bis. In particular, these are volumes that were part of the "History of organized crime" series published last year as an attachment to the Gazzetta dello Sport . The books concerned topics related to Cosa Nostra. After the authorization received from the Surveillance Court of Spoleto, the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria, where Graviano was accused in the "'Ndrangheta massacre" trial, ordered the withholding of the books to prevent the boss from being able to "acquire information, news on the events covered - it is written in the provision - which can be used to develop strategies and issue provisions within the mafia context to which they belong". The blocking of the books was then confirmed by the Court of Reggio Calabria "taking into account the subject matter covered by the writings and the personality of the subject". The judge's order was appealed to the Supreme Court where the lawyer Vincenzo Dascola , Graviano's defender, argued in his appeal that the withholding of the volumes by the Terni prison occurred "in clear violation of the law" because "the penitentiary system" relating to 41bis "does not limit the right of prisoners under special regime to receive and keep with them the publications of their choice, but affects the methods through which said publications can be acquired". Then citing "the constitutional protection of fundamental rights", in his appeal the lawyer Dascola argued that "it is not only the prisoner's freedom of expression of thought that is being compressed and damaged, understood in its passive meaning of the right to be informed and the right to study but also the right to enjoy reading a volume of one's choice, corresponding to one's tastes and interests, and therefore the right to one's own cultural enrichment". Hence the Supreme Court's decision to accept the request of the boss Giuseppe Graviano and send the matter back to a new Court in Reggio Calabria.

HE WAS 80 YEARS OLD
Borgetto, old boss dead, mafia summits at his home
One of the Borgetto mafia bosses who ruled alongside Brusca between the 1990s and early 2000s has died

by Michele Giuliano
December 29, 2023
6.15pm
Giuseppe Baldinucci, 80 year old boss of Borgetto, who was part of the elite of the mafia between the 90s and early 2000s, has died . He was involved in the kidnapping of little Giuseppe Di Matteo and favored the absconding of the boss of San Giuseppe Jato, Giovanni Brusca . In 2005, after a long absence that began in 1996, he was arrested by the FBI in New York and a few years later extradited to Italy. He had been wanted for 11 years.

Baldinucci was under investigation for illegal possession of weapons and drug trafficking. He was known in the mafia of Borgetto and surrounding areas above all for his role as ambassador of Cosa Nostra in New York and for coordinating drug trafficking between the two sides of the Atlantic. Right here he sought refuge to escape Italian justice. But his presence in New York was reported by the Carabinieri to the FBI who arrested him.

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SICILIAN ‘SLAY’ MOBSTER IN BX. BUST
By Social Links forKati Cornell Smith
Published April 16, 2005, 4:00 a.m. ET
The feds have nabbed a reputed Sicilian mobster wanted in Italy for allegedly helping a notorious Mafia boss evade arrest in the high-profile 1992 assassination of a judge.

After nearly 10 years on the lam, Giuseppe Baldinucci, 61, was arrested in The Bronx yesterday morning and hit with new charges for entering the country illegally. He was held without bail at an arraignment in Brooklyn federal court.

Italian authorities had long sought Baldinucci’s arrest for aiding and abetting Giovanni “The Pig” Brusca, who hid from the law after he assassinated famed Italian Magistrate Giovanni Falcone.

Known as an anti-Mafia crusader, Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards died when Brusca blew up the judge’s car.

Baldinucci is no stranger to New York – his criminal record here dates to the 1970s. He was previously deported in 1989 after a conviction on narcotics-conspiracy charges.

This article says Giuseppe Baldinucci, was a suspected member of the New York Mafia family headed by Salvatore Catalano


UPI ARCHIVES FEB. 11, 1986
Mafia trial still in procedural stage

PALERMO, Sicily -- Six names were struck from the list of defendants Tuesday in the trial of more than 460 people accused of helping build the Sicilian Mafia into a global crime syndicate.

Three of the six have connections to the 'pizza connection' Mafia trial in New York and the others are serving sentences in foreign jails. Authorities hope to try the six later.

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Released from the trial, which began Monday, were Gaetano Badalamenti, a former president of the supreme 'tribunal' that rules the Sicilian Mafia and a key figure in the pizza connection trial of Cosa Nostra leaders who ran a drug trafficking ring with links in Sicily, Spain, New York and New Jersey.

Badalamenti was arrested in Madrid in 1984, along with his son Vito and Pietro Alfano. All were later extradited to the United States and imprisoned.

The other key defendants with pizza connection links struck off the list of defendants are Badalamenti's nephew Vincenzo Randazzo and Giuseppe Baldinucci, a suspected member of the New York Mafia family headed by Salvatore Catalano.

The other three defendants dropped from the list are serving life sentences in Egypt after being arrested on a ship in the Suez Canal with 513 pounds of heroin from Thailand. Judge Alfonso Giordano said he struck the six from the list because they are 'legitimately prevented' from attending the Palermo hearings.

The court's action reduced the number of defendants from 474 to 468, of whom 111 are still being hunted by police and will be tried in their absence.

Because of the threat of a Mafia counterattack, a force of 250 Carabinieri national police have guarded the courtroom complex and another 500 police, including sharpshooters on the roofs of nearby buildings, were stationed at the perimeter.

The trial is the largest ever staged against the Sicilian Mafia. It stems from the confessions of former Palermo Mafia godfather Tommaso 'Don Masino' Buscetta and 29 others who broke the Mafia code of silence to turn state's evidence.

The trial is now centering on procedural matters, and no testimony is expected until March.

In a related development, people claiming to be from the Red Brigades -- who assassinated a former mayor of Florence Monday -- issued a statement Tuesday saying the murder was related to the trial.

The terrorists ambushed former mayor Lando Conti, 52, on a country road outside Florence late Monday as he was driving from his home to a meeting of the city council.

April 10, 1984
31 CHARGED BY U.S. WITH RUNNING A 1.65 BILLION HEROIN OPERATION
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Federal authorities charged 31 men yesterday with operating an organized- crime ring that has brought $1.65 billion worth of heroin into the United States since 1979.

''It is the most significant case involving heroin trafficking by traditional organized crime that has ever been developed by the Government,'' Attorney General William French Smith said at a news conference at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan.

''We estimate that the ring has imported at least 330 pounds of heroin a year for the past five years,'' Mr. Smith said.

A key part of the heroin ring was described as ''the Catalano faction of the Bonanno family of La Cosa Nostra'' in New York City. The leader of the faction was identified as 43-year-old Salvatore Catalano of Queens, who was accused of being a major heroin distributor.

The man accused of being the main supplier of the heroin was identified as Gaetano Badalamenti, 50, of Sicily, who was described by Federal officials as ''a Sicilian Mafia leader'' sought as a top narcotics trafficker for many years.

Mr. Badalamenti was arrested on Sunday in Madrid, according to Rudolph W. Giuliani, the United States Attorney in Manhattan. He said the arrest in Madrid set off a series of charges and arrests in New York and several other cities in the United States and Europe.

Of the 31 suspects named in the charges, 24 were arrested by yesterday afternoon. In the arrest raids and searches, several additional suspects were seized who were not among the 31 named in the original charges.

The heroin ring used numerous pizza restaurants as covers to conceal heroin operations in New York and several other cities, Mr. Giuliani said, adding that officials called the case ''the pizza connection.''

Most of the heroin originated in Southwest Asia, particularly Afghanistan, according to Federal investigators who conducted the extensive investigation in the United States and overseas.

The investigators accused Mr. Badalamenti of arranging for the heroin to be moved to Sicily, Spain or South America before smuggling it into the United States, where several of his relatives were accused of using pizza restaurants in the Middle West to distribute heroin in this country.

Direct evidence of the heroin operation was first uncovered, the investigators said, when couriers were observed transferring large amounts of cash through New York banks and investment houses to Italy and Switzerland.

The participants in the heroin ring were said to include some members of the Gambino crime family as well as the Bonanno group and the Badalamenti group.

More than a dozen top law-enforcement officials, including William H. Webster, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, joined Attorney General Smith at the news conference in Manhattan.

Referring to the total amount of heroin imported by the ring in five years, Mr. Smith said, ''Its street value is $1.65 billion.''

''The ring distributed heroin in such major urban areas as New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and Newark,'' he continued, adding that ''the traffickers laundered tens of millions of dollars in heroin proceeds.'' 'Coordinated Attacks'

The case was developed by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program, Mr. Smith said. He added that ''all available Federal resources in highly coordinated attacks against drug rings'' had been used.

In the current case, he said, ''hundreds of agents trailed the meetings, to other cities, to other countries.''

''As our evidence will show,'' he went on, ''agents watched scores of exchanges of boxes, bags and briefcases - money being exchanged for heroin.''

Mr. Smith added that ''the F.B.I. conducted court-approved electronic surveillance of more than 300 telephone conversations'' in New York City.

The formal charges in the case were contained in a Federal complaint for the arrest of 31 suspects. The arrest complaint was signed by Federal agents, a procedure frequently used to arrest suspects before a grand jury acts on an indictment.

The charges named six other men in addition to Mr. Catalano and Mr. Badalamenti as leaders of the narcotics operation. Others Named as Leaders

They are Giuseppe Ganci, 50, of Queens, owner of several pizza restaurants in New York; Giuseppe Soresi, 48, of Borghetto, Italy; Pietro Alfano, 48, of Oregon, Ill., owner of a pizza restaurant near Chicago; Salvatore Mazzurco, 48, of Baldwin, L.I., an owner of a demolition company; and two cousins, Joseph Lamberti, 52, of Baldwin, and Salvatore Lamberti, also 52, of Woodmere, L.I.

If convicted of the leadership charge, under the so-called ''drug kingpin'' law, they could each face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole and a fine of up to $100,000.

All of the suspects were charged with participating in a narcotics conspiracy, a charge that carries up to 15 years in prison and a maximum fine of $25,000.

Bail as high as $7.5 million was set as some of the arrested suspects appeared before Judge Milton Pollack in Federal District court in Manhattan. Bail hearings continued into the evening.

In addition to New York, arrests were made in Newark, Philadelphia, Chicago and Detroit, as well as in Spain, Italy and Switzerland. Federal officials said efforts would be made to extradite the suspects who were arrested abroad.

The main arrest complaint, which was unsealed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, was accompanied by a 341-page supporting affidavit submitted by Charles J. Rooney, an F.B.I. agent described as an expert on organized crime.

The affidavit said Salvatore Catalano was born in Palermo, Sicily, and was now an operator of the Catalano Brothers Bakery and San Giuseppe Pizza, also called Al Dente Pizza, in Queens.

The suspects named in the charges, in addition to the eight accused of being leaders, were listed by the Federal authorities as the following: Filippo Casamento, 58, of Brooklyn, operator of a cheese company. Frank Castronovo, 50, of Parlin, N.J., owner of a pizza restaurant. Gaetano Mazzara, 49, of Sayerville, N.J., owner of a pizza restaurant. Vincenzo Randazzo, 44, of Milan, Italy. Faro Lupo, no age given, also of Milan. Benito Zito, 32, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., operator of a pizza restaurant in Philadelphia. Emanuele Palazzolo, no age given, of Milton, Wisc., owner of a pizza restaurant. Samuel Evola, 47, of Temperance, Mich., a construction worker. Giovanni Ligammari, 45, of Saddle Brook, N.J. Cesare Bonventre, 33, of Brooklyn. Baldassare Amato, no age given, of Brooklyn. Onofrio Catalano, 48, of Sicily, a brother of Salvatore Catalano. Giuseppe Trupiano, no age given, of Olney, Ill. Giuseppe Vitale, no age given, of Paris, Ill. Lorenzo Devardo, 38, of Queens. Giovanni Cangialosi, no age given, of Borghetto, Italy. Adriano Corti, 41, of Bellinzona, Switzerland. Philip Salamone, 40, of Jackson, N.J. Salvatore Salamone, 35, of Bloomsburg, Pa. Salvatore Greco, 51, of Jackson, N.J. Rosario Dispenza, 51, of Queens. Franco Della Torre, 41, of Balerna, Switzerland. Giuseppe Baldinucci, no age given, in Federal custody in New York.

Cosa Nostra and Stidda investigation: four indictments
December 29, 2023
The magistrate of the Palermo court, Ivana Vassallo , has decided on 4 indictments for as many suspects in the "Condor" operation which hit the Cosa Nostra and Stidda families and the acquittal of the 55-year-old Pasquale Alaimo di Favara, accused of having violated special surveillance, meeting some criminals including the Favarian brothers Giuseppe and Ignazio Sicilia , defendants in this trial. Alaimo was freed after serving 13 years in prison on charges of having been one of the main supporters of the former Cosa Nostra provincial head, Maurizio Di Gati . The lawyer Giuseppe Barba had highlighted that these were not violations of the measure but "sporadic meetings in public places without any prior agreement". On trial, however, are Salvatore Curto , 39 years old, from Canicattì; Salvatore Galvano , 52 years old, from Agrigento; Francesco Genova , 43 years old, from Palermo and Giovanni Cibaldi , 35 years old, from Licata. The hearing is scheduled to begin on March 11th before the judges of the first criminal section of Agrigento presided over by Alfonso Malato . Ten other defendants, however, requested summary judgment and the prosecutor of the Palermo DDA, Claudio Camilleri , requested their conviction.

The unpublished photos of Giuseppe Graviano and Messina Denaro at the 'Maurizio Costanzo Show'

The two leaders of Cosa Nostra were in Rome to spy on the television host
The boss of San Giuseppe Jato, Giovanni Brusca , had said that they were like " the bucket and the rope ", that is, they were always together. This connection between Matteo Messina Denaro and Giuseppe Graviano emerges even more clearly when we see them sitting in the audience of the Parioli theater in Rome, in the winter of 1992, during a performance of the Maurizio Costanzo Show . Always together, united by a particular bond that also has its roots in the mutual knowledge of the unspeakable secrets of Salvatore Riina : the repentant Giovanni Brusca had told the prosecutors during the Caltanissetta trial against the Scarlet Pimpernel of Castelvetrano that the boss of bosses, during a meeting, he had let himself go into some confidences, already reported by ANTIMAFIADuemila in 2017 : " Totò Riina told me that, if he were arrested or something happened to him, the picciotti, Matteo Messina Denaro and Giuseppe Graviano , knew everything. He told me these things at the end of 1992, between November and December. It was the period when we had no news and he began to worry that he might be arrested."
With the recent passing of "u Siccu" last September, Graviano, known as " mother nature ", is perhaps the only one left to guard such secrets.
The photos published by ' Repubblica ' portray the two leaders of Cosa Nostra sitting next to each other, already fugitives at the time.

The chief prosecutor of Palermo asks the CSM, the DNA and the general prosecutor's office to strengthen the anti-mafia pool. De Lucia strengthens the Prosecutor's Office: ''Mafia not defeated with Messina Denaro''.
"The current numerical size of the DDA continues to be clearly insufficient not only with respect to the expected staff, but above all in relation to the real quantity of work that the district management must carry out".

Still in the orbit of the anti-mafia, investigations continue regarding the contacts between the Sicilian and American Cosa Nostra. Just as the investigative activity continues on drug trafficking which has become forcefully popular again in Palermo in the post-pandemic period. Finally, there is the hunt for Giovanni Motisi, one of the killers of the deputy commissioner Ninni Cassarà, wanted since 1998 and facing a life sentence. Since January 16, 2023, he has returned to the top of the list of wanted fugitives despite having disappeared from radar.

I don't think they will ever catch Giovanni Motisi, if he is even still alive, according to some he is alive.

I never thought they would catch Denaro, but his health problems became critical he needed the best possible care so he had to stop hiding to go to the specialists. Provenzano also had cancer and had to travel to France. If 'U Pacchiuni stays healthy he can hide forever.

I think Denaro's capture was deal with the state, because people said he is sick and will make a deal soon.

It was a surrender not a capture.

I wonder what is the status of Salvatore Messina Denaro?

Salvatore was released in 2018 on probation after serving seven years and returned to Castelvetrano. The banker Salvatore was previously arrested in November 1998 for his mafia ties. At the time, he was an employee at the Sicula and then Comit banks.

i think Salvatore Messina Denaro is a member of Castelvetrano family, the boss is Francesco Guttadauro

Mafia war and murders in the Messina area, ROS blitz with 7 arrests

MESSINA – The Carabinieri del Ros, with the support of the provincial Carabinieri command of Messina and the 12th Carabinieri helicopter unit of Catania, have carried out a precautionary custody order, signed by the investigating judge, against seven people investigated for various murders aggravated by the method mafia, made to facilitate the activities of the mafia association of the "Barcelonesi" clan which managed criminal affairs in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and on the Tyrrhenian coast of the Province of Messina.

The provision arises from the investigations launched in January 2023 by the Carabinieri of the Special Operational Group delegated by the DDA into 10 murders, white wolf hunts, intimidation and attempted murders. According to the investigations, the suspects, some of whom have already been convicted with a final sentence for being leaders and promoters of the "Barcelonesi" mafia clan, took part, as instigators or material executors, in murders as part of the mafia war of the years Ninety in the province of Messina.

The investigations made use of the recent declarations of the justice collaborator Salvatore Micale, belonging to the Barcelona clan, and - say the carabinieri - made it possible to ascertain that the suspects "would have overall participated, with different roles, in the 10 ambushes all carried out with the classic mafia methodologies using firearms and taking the victims by surprise, killing 13 people aged between 21 and 55.

During the investigations into the Barcellonesi clan, in the Tyrrhenian area of ??Messina, it also emerged that several murders had been decreed by the leaders of the gang to "punish some boys who had committed thefts or dealt drugs without having received prior authorization from the association , behaviors – say the carabinieri – which undermined the authority of the leaders of the association”.

The crimes

The investigation by the Messina DDA concerns the murders of Angelo Ferro in 1993 in Milazzo, the double murder of Antonino Accept and Giuseppe Pirri, found dead in the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto cemetery in 1992 and killed the previous day, the killing of Carmelo Engineers, which occurred in 1992 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, by Francesco Longo, killed in 1992 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, by Aurelio Anastasi, killed in 1993 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Giuseppe Italiano's white lupara, the man would have been kidnapped and killed in February 1993 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, and Giuseppe Porcino, kidnapped and killed in March 1993 also in Barcellona PdG. The police and firefighters are looking for the victim's remains. The investigations still concern the shooting deaths in 1993 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto of Sergio Raimondi, Giuseppe Martino and Giuseppe Geraci, the latter died in 1994 from his injuries. One of the perpetrators was sentenced to life imprisonment for these crimes. And again the investigation has lifted the veil on the murder of Giuseppe Abbate, which occurred in 1998 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, and the killing of Fortunato Ficarra, in 1998 in Santa Lucia del Mela. Five people were convicted for this crime, with a sentence that will become final in 2022.

The names of the suspects

The people reached this morning by a precautionary custody order in prison as part of the Messina DDA investigation into the murders of the 1990s in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto are men of the highest rank in the mafia hierarchies who governed the Barcellona Cosa Nostra . These are Giuseppe Gullotti, for a long time considered at the top of the group, and Salvatore "Sam" Di Salvo, later designated as his successor. Then Nicola Cannone and Stefano “Stefanino” Genovese. The detention order was served on the four in prison. The other three suspects arrested and taken to prison are: the "cashier" of the Barcelona mafia group of the 80s and 90s Giuseppe Isgrò, recently released after having finished serving his sentence for the "Gotha 4" operation , Carmelo Mastroeni, originally from Merì, touched at the time by the "Omega-Obelisco" investigation and considered by the DDA to have always been close to Salvatore "Sam" Di Salvo, and Vincenzo Miano.

Anti-mafia operation in Barcellona, new instigators and killers of thirteen murders discovered: 7 arrests.
Thirteen murders not yet fully clarified due to the impressive bloodshed of the Cosa Nostra in Barcellona in the 1990s, the mafia war that left dozens of corpses on the streets, many of which disappeared in the absolute darkness of a construction site or a stream, and were never found again. Nothing was ever known about some executions.

Messina Denaro's 'sutler' gets 13 yrs in jail
Woman romantically linked to late fugitive superboss gave aid
ROME, 12 January 2024, 13:34

APalermo preliminary hearings judge (GUP) on Friday sentenced to 13 years and eight months in jail a woman who acted as 'sutler' or food and aid provider to late superboss Matteo Messina Denaro during his 30-year flight from Italian justice.
The woman, Lorena Lanceri, who for years looked after Messina Denaro during his fugitive period, was convicted of external complicity in mafia association.
Her husband, Emanuele Bonafede, was sentenced to six years and eight months for aiding and abetting and procuring.
Lanceri was romantically linked to 'the Sicilian mafia's last godfather', who died in a hospital in L'Aquila in September aged 62 after a battle with cancer.
Messina Denaro's long spell on the run ended when he was caught in a Palermo cancer clinic on January 16 last year.
Messina Denaro had been convicted for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 Cosa Nostra bombings that killed anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
In addition to the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations, he was convicted of the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a mobster-turned-State witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996, and bombings at art and religious sites in Milan, Florence and Rome that killed 10 people and hurt 40 more in 1993.
Long idolised by younger mafiosi for his ruthlessness and playboy-like charisma,, Messina Denaro sealed a reputation for brutality by murdering a rival Trapani boss and strangling his three-months-pregnant girlfriend.
The boss, who reportedly enjoyed orgies with Palermo women while on the run, once said he could have filled a cemetery with those he had killed.
He was reportedly helped dodge police by a "middle class Mafia", not only around his fief at Trapani but also around Sicily, Italian police have said.

Messina Denaro, secret diaries revealed one year after his arrest
Giuseppe Cirillo January 16, 2024
In his writings the boss addresses his daughter Lorenza: "Where I was born, weapons prepare you for life"
The secret diaries of massacre boss Matteo Messina Denaro have been revealed . Exactly one year after his arrest, the godfather's thoughts and words emerge, dedicated above all to his daughter Lorenza, recognized shortly before the boss took her last breath. A sort of self-glorification of a life marked by the violence and blood of murders, which the Cosa Nostra boss interpreted through quotes that are very reminiscent of Spartan battles. The images of Messina Denaro under arrest went around the world. On January 16, 2023, the massacre boss was arrested as he left the "La Maddalena" clinic. It is not yet entirely clear whether the super boss was there to seek a cure for his colon cancer, an incurable disease that ultimately left him no escape, or whether he was trying to attract attention - even through selfies with the healthcare workers - in an attempt to get noticed by those who have hunted them for three decades. In any case, today we know the thoughts that were reported by the last of the Corleonesi in his secret diaries; including those in which the superboss jokes about his identikit which, according to him, portrays him as an "85 year old" man. Words that resonate as if they were written by someone whose destiny already seemed to have been set in stone. “In the environment in which I was born and raised - wrote Messina Denaro addressing his daughter Lorenza - weapons represent an important educational moment in life”. Then - as reported by the " Corriere della Sera " - there was no shortage of references to violence filtered by his very personal code of ethics.


“The dangerous people, I have learned, are not those who are armed, but those not educated in the ethics of weapons, in the responsibility for their own actions”. For Messina Denaro, the concept of violence can also be explained through Spartan quotes: "If you can't win with words - he wrote - take up arms". And again: “I have never shown courtesy to those who have a sword in their hands, I have always looked for a fight”. Inside what appears to be a memorial, the boss also wanted to remember the moment in which he began being on the run, in '93, immediately after the massacres. “Life ended for me at 31; the rest was just an interminable aftermath." Then, his concept of cowardice: “I made mistakes like all men, I did not commit cowardice. I don't regret what I did", specified the super boss who, together with Giovanni Brusca , Leoluca Bagarella and Giuseppe Graviano , organized the kidnapping of little Giuseppe Di Matteo , killed and dissolved in acid on 11 January 1996. his notes, the Castelvetrano boss does not fail to present himself as a victim of justice. “The sentences that concern me were determined by politics and journalistic campaigns.” Hence, the quote from former US President Donald Trump : “Journalists are among the most dishonest beings on earth.” - he continues - “Honor to you, Trump, for thinking it, above all for saying it. Thank you, you made me feel less alone." Addressing his daughter Lorenza directly, the boss explained: “I am not and do not feel like a criminal. Except that life, when I was a boy, put me at a crossroads: live or die. I chose to live with everything that came with it." In his writings there was no shortage of words of resentment regarding the difficult relationship with his daughter. For this reason the Castelvetrano boss wanted to remember his father, Lorenza's paternal grandfather, the boss Francesco Messina Denaro . “He was the world, while for you I am the desert”.

Source: Corriere della Sera

Hence, the quote from former US President Donald Trump : “Journalists are among the most dishonest beings on earth.” - he continues - “Honor to you, Trump, for thinking it, above all for saying it. Thank you, you made me feel less alone."

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