Mafia, Messina Denaro: "I didn't give the order to kill little Di Matteo"
Messina Denaro tries to reduce his role in the killing of little Giuseppe Di Matteo by unloading the responsibility on Giovanni Brusca

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Kidnapping yes, murder no. Matteo Messina Denaro tries to reduce his role in the killing of little Giuseppe Di Matteo by unloading the responsibility for having ordered the child's suppression onto Giovanni Brusca. The boss, as reported by the Livesicilia.it website, thus answered the questions of the investigating judge Alfredo Montalto.

Giuseppe Di Matteo was kidnapped in the stables of Villabate where he rode on horseback on November 23, 1993. He was just 12 years old. With the kidnapping, the mafia wanted to induce father Santino Di Matteo, who had become a collaborator of justice, to retract his revelations. While waiting for an afterthought that never happened, Giuseppe was transferred from one prison to another in the provinces of Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento.

The first farm to which he was taken, hooded and locked in the trunk of a car, was in Campobello di Mazara, the very town of Messina Denaro's last hideout. Here the little boy spent a period of his horrible imprisonment in the country house of Giuseppe Costa, a loyal follower of the fugitive boss at the time. After an ordeal lasting more than two years, on 11 January 1996 Giovanni Brusca gave the order to kill the child who was strangled and dissolved in acid. It is precisely from this horror that Messina Denaro has now distanced itself. That order, he repeated, did not come from him.