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”.
