Cosa Nostra boss Denaro Messina declares himself a “farmer”, a “stateless person” and a mafia outsider

Considered the boss of bosses of Italy’s Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaroarrested in January after being on the run for three decades, pleaded before a judge as a simple “farmer”, “stateless” and outside the Sicilian mafia.

“I work in the field, I was a farmer. I am not registered because the city council canceled me. I am now stateless,” he told investigators in the alleged extortion case on February 21, according to a report published by the Ansa agency on Tuesday.

Messina Denaro, arrested in his native Sicily on January 16 after 30 years on the run and imprisoned in the maximum security penitentiary of L’Aquila (center), when asked about his financial situation, replied: – I don’t miss anything. “I had inherited property, but you took it all from me. If there’s anything left I won’t tell, I’m not stupid either“, he referred.

The mobster also denied being part of “any association” and belonging to the Sicilian mafia: “Everything I know about Cosa Nostra I know thanks to the newspapers,” he said, always according to the same source.

He also rejected nicknames, although it is known that he was known in his environment as Diabolik or U Siccu.

The criminal, the author of numerous murders and attacks, was arrested when he went to a private clinic in Palermo to be treated for colon cancer, and after his arrest it was discovered that he had been hiding in Campobello for the past few years. di Mazzara (south), near his hometown, Castelvetrano.

In the last months of the government They also arrested an alleged network of collaborators this allowed him to live with a certain normality in Sicily.

Among these are his sister Rosalia; his driver, Giovanni Luppino; the doctor from Campobello di Mazara, Alfonso Tumbarello, or the couple who helped him hide, Emanuele Bonafede and Lorena Ninfa Lanceri.