'Support network' for Messina Denaro smashed
14 arrested in Sicily

(ANSA) - Rome, May 10 - Italian police on Wednesday said they had smashed a "support network" for fugitive Cosa Nostra No. 1 Matteo Messina Denaro, arresting 14 people.
The 14 are suspected of mafia conspiracy, illegal weapons possession and other mafia-related crimes.
Police said they had found evidence that, from his hiding place, the Sicilian Mafia leader intervened to "ease friction among clans".
Messina Denaro, now 53, has been on the run since 1993 and is on Interpol's list of the world's 10 most wanted fugitives.
He has not been seen in public in over 20 years. An informant in 2014 helped authorities update their facial composite of the Mafia boss.
In March a trial began in Caltanissetta in which he is accused of being among those who ordered the 1992 bomb murders of anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Cosa Nostra mobsters turned State's witnesses Francesco Geraci and Vincenzo Sinacori told investigators Messina Denaro took part in a September 1991 Mafia summit to plan Falcone's assassination.
Jailed boss of bosses Toto' Riina, who allegedly chaired that summit, has already been convicted of ordering the hits on Falcone and Borsellino.
Another former Mafia No.1, Bernardo Provenzano, who died in jail last July, was also found guilty of commissioning the murders.
Falcone was assassinated by a huge bomb under the Palermo-Palermo airport highway at Capaci along with his wife Franvesca Morvillo and three police escorts on May 23, 1992.
Borsellino was killed by a massive car bomb on July 19, 1992, together with his five police escorts in the via D'Amelio near his mother's home in Palermo.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/05/...6273cc54f6.html

Whatever came of the report these guys put out of Toto Riina agreeing to testify in some Mafia trial? I figured it was bullshit, but these guys seem to be a reliable source for Sicilian Mafia news, so I wonder where they got the information from.

It seems the heat is getting scorching hot for MMD.

We should create a betting pool for how long it takes that they have him..

Police also released photo of him and his sister. Thanks to Strax!

New tactics needed in hunt for Sicilian Mafia’s boss of bosses Messina Denaro – Prosecutor: “He’s not normal.”

http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/bl...ss-of-bosses-me

The home in the center of Castelvetrano where MMD grew up.

https://images4.persgroep.net/rcs/e9coGQ...af318a6d1463b0b

feel like every year or two there's an article saying they've dismantled his support network, yet they never find him.

Damn! Italians are the kings of hide and seek.

How long did Provenzano hide for, 47 years?

A lot of hiding places in, "The boot"!

And he was only 31 when he became a fugitive, 55 is still young for a top boss. A team of sixty-five policemen hunt mafiosi in the territory of Messina Denaro. But how do you find a ghost?
The mafia in western Sicily has a high level of protection for example a State Secretary in the government of Silvio Berlusconi a Sicilian was a friend of the family Messina Denaro. That same man runs in municipal elections in June to become the Trapani mayor.

@Hollander: Talking about Antonio D'Alì? His father was one of founders of Banco Sicula also member of P2.His cousin Giacomo D’Alì is a counsellor of the Banca Commerciale Italiana

Yes Strax.

It would be interesting to know how strong relations between MMD and the Five Families are. The Americans have ties to his guys and the gangs of Carini, Torretta, Borgetto, Partinico and Cinisi.

After Reggio Calabria and Milan now in Palermo. In the capital of the Sicilian region there were posted about 70 posters depicting the boss Matteo Messina Denaro in women's dresses. The posters are visible in various districts of Palermo including the Zen, the area of ​​Via d'Amelio, the Port Zone, the roads bordering the entrance of the highway, the Old Town. Authors of the campaign are Klaus Davi and the advertiser Pasquale Diaferia. Not just him. In several districts of the Sicilian city you can see the posters of two other bosses of the 'Ndrangheta, Rocco Morabito, fugitive for over 25 years, and Nicola Assisi, unavailable for years.

http://www.ansa.it/webimages/ch_700/2017/8/20/3244196af73e4f933179a3cf37faedfa.jpg

Think they just call him a cross dresser to get him mad and maybe act out and get caught.