Cassation: Filippo Guttadauro, brother-in-law of the boss Messina Denaro, remains at 41 bis
AMTwo thousand January 31, 2024



Despite having finished serving his sentence eight years ago (a total sentence of 18 years) the boss Filippo Guttadauro (pictured) , 72 years old, remains at 41 bis in the "workhouse" where he has been since 2015. He decided it the first section of the Cassation, which considers Guttadauro socially dangerous and for this reason rejected the request that the mafia boss originally from Bagheria (Palermo), but resident for years in Castelvetrano (Trapani) had presented through his lawyer daughter, Lorenza Guttadauro . Guttadauro is the husband of Rosalia Messina Denaro , arrested last March: therefore he is the brother-in-law of Matteo Messina Denaro , the super fugitive captured on 16 January 2023 and died in L'Aquila prison on 25 September. Rosalia is in turn in the cell because she is considered to be a supporter and supporter in her brother's thirty-year escape, while Filippo until 11 April 2006 had been in direct contact with Bernardo Provenzano , also a fugitive (for 43 years) until the day he was captured in the Montagna dei Cavalli hideout. There, in Corleone (Palermo) the police found numerous pizzini from the correspondence between Provenzano and Messina Denaro, in which reference was made to a person indicated with the number 121, later identified as Filippo Guttadauro , the intermediary between the two mafia bosses and the person responsible for a series of other crimes linked to the activity of Cosa Nostra. The family situation, the wife linked to the super fugitive like the rest of the family, had led the Trieste surveillance court, on 24 May 2022 and then on 16 January last year, to confirm both the workhouse (a measure which is defined as a "white life sentence", given that it can be extended without limits) and 41 bis, i.e. hard prison, extended by another three years, therefore expiring in January 2026.

Source: Agi