(VIDEO) Telephone interceptions and serious health problems. How Messina Denaro was arrested by: Redaction - of 2023-01-16
The intuition of about three months ago that led to the arrest of the boss after 30 years on the run came from the wiretapping of Messina Denaro's relatives in recent months. Someone in the family, as confirmedLivesicilia.it, he was sick. The name and surname were not mentioned and from there the new lead that led to the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro started.
From the insights into the health sector, it emerged of a sixty-year-old who in the past underwent surgery at the La Maddalena clinic in Palermo for colon cancer. Further investigating the medical records, it emerged that Matteo Messina Denaro (alias Andrea Bonafede) had to perform some preparatory analyzes at the beginning of a cycle of chemotherapy.
On the date of the first intervention, however, it was ascertained that the telephone cell of the real Bonafede (nephew of the historic mafia boss Leonardo) confirmed his presence in Campobello di Mazara and not in the place where the intervention was carried out.
This resulted in the confirmation that the operation had been performed in favor of another person. The clues converge and hence the choice of the investigators to organize the blitz inside the clinic where the arrest took place.
Colon cancer and liver cancer prompted Messina Denaro to come out of his hiding place and travel by car with Giovanni Luppino from Campobello (also arrested) without escaping the radar of the investigators who had been working on his arrest for years.
