Messina Denaro's mail, pizzini with bosses and infiltrators: "After reading them, don't tear them up but burn them"
The rules of the former fugitive to prevent the messages from being discovered and ending up in the hands of the investigators. The correspondence with Bernardo Provenzano, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, but also with the former mayor Antonio Vaccarino and with his sister "Rosetta" shows that few of him listened to him. I prosecutor: "In all the hideouts you will find letters: exceptional material"


The investigators found many pizzini written by Messina Denaro

"After reading this letter, don't tear it up, burn it", this was the recommendation of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro in the correspondence entertained under the pseudonym of "Alessio" with the former mayor Antonino Vaccarino, alias "Svetonius", who died in 2021 and that through the SISDE years ago he had managed to hook up the ex super fugitive, without however the operation ultimately leading to the capture of the mafioso. A clear and fundamental recommendation which, however, was not respected even by the sister of the mafia boss, "Rosetta", who ended up in prison , and who, precisely because she did not destroy the pizzini - or for having copied them - involuntarily put the investigators on the right track to identify , after thirty years on the run,

The investigating judge: "The boss didn't hide and showed his face to everyone"

Messages with Provenzano, Lo Piccolo and Vaccarino
As stated in the order of the investigating judge Alfredo Montalto which led to the arrest of Rosalia Messina Denaro, alias "Fragolone", the mafia boss "had built around himself a solid and well-tested communication system through pizzini" which, before 16 January last year, when it was blocked at the La Maddalena clinic, it was made up of three well-known strands: one with Bernardo Provenzano (the messages were seized on 11 April 2006, after the capture of the head of Cosa Nostra in Montagna dei Cavalli), another with Vaccarino (who was acquired through the former Sisde) and finally the one with the "baron" of San Lorenzo, the boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo (the notes were also found in this case at the time of his arrest, on 5 November 2007 ).

"Scientific method still in use: pizzini found in all hideouts"
This communication system - made of rolled up notes, sealed with adhesive tape, often hidden in small packets, with code names and hand-delivered by a human chain - according to the investigators "still works today in a scientific and orthodox way within Cosa Nostra". So much so that, as the prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia writes, the deputy Paolo Guido and the deputies Gianluca De Leo and Pierangelo Padova, who coordinate the investigations of the Ros "in all the sites in the availability of Messina Denaro's family members were found, meticulously concealed , a consistent number of pizzini".

The "ingenious rules" of the mafioso
The former fugitive had always "characterized the transmission (and above all the conservation) of the pizzini by the adoption of ingenious precautions - reads the precautionary custody order - first of all the rule of the absolute prohibition of leaving any material trace of the written : it has always been a peremptory order from the boss to his epistolary interlocutors to burn and/or destroy the pizzino received immediately after reading it".