The boss from Agrigento "traveling with Messina Denaro" on the off-road vehicle


PALERMO – The blitz on the mafia in the countryside in the province of Agrigento brings an old acquaintance of the investigators back to the fore . A new precautionary custody order was served on Pietro Campo in prison, where he is already detained.

The thought goes back to 2009 , to a video that immortalized him together with a man who remained without identity. According to some investigators, alongside Campo, in a Mitsubishi Pajero, was Matteo Messina Denaro .

A hypothesis without any certainty, but which in light of recent investigations becomes plausible. The fugitive from Castelvetrano, in fact, went around Sicily with extreme tranquility.

The off-road vehicle traveled along a country road at 10 in the morning. It was December 7, 2009 when a camera filmed the passage of the vehicle for a few seconds.

Then a confidential source had linked Matteo Messina Denaro to Pietro Campo , owner of a farm not far from the place where the car was filmed, in the Gulfa district, between Santa Margherita di Belice and Torre Pandolfina. His son Giovanni Campo, also arrested today, was also searched.

Pietro Campo, boss of Santa Margherita Belice, is not the latest arrival, but a character of great mafia caliber. He was arrested in the early 1990s, subsequently in 2002 in the “Cupola” blitz and would return to prison again in 2015. In 2017 a 14-year sentence became definitive.

Would Messina Denaro have gone so far as to move with a man known to the police? However, we know about him that he led a normal life between tattoos in Palermo and moves to Campobello di Mazara where he even managed the arrangement of the furniture himself.

In addition to the elements acquired through the investigations, two turncoats also indicated Campo as Messina Denaro's contact person: Antonino Giuffré and Maurizio Di Gati .

The latter reported Campo's role as interpreter of the Castelvetrano boss's pizzini. Between 2005 and 2006, investigators discovered thanks to the pizzini found in Bernardo Provenzano's hideout, those who maintained contact with the Agrigento mafia were Filippo Guttaduro and Leo Sutera, indicated respectively with the code names '121' and 'il prof' .