Matteo Messina Denaro protected in Calabria by the 'Ndrangheta during his escape
May 11, 2023
It is September 3, 2016. Nicola Accardo and Antonino Triolo , two mafiosi from Partanna, in the Trapani area, speak not knowing they are being intercepted: "He says Matteo was in Calabria and is back... " Accardo revealed. The investigators have no doubts: it is Matteo Messina Denaro , at the time wanted number one in Italy. The Calabrian track is back in the news because the latest elements collected by the investigators show that the last stage of the inaction of the godfather of Castelvetrano, before his transfer to Campobello di Mazara, was precisely Calabria. Thanks to the protection of the 'Ndrangheta Matteo Messina Denarohe would have taken refuge between Lametia Terme and Cosenza, a city in which the boss would also have had various affairs: from drug trafficking in which the 'ndrine have now conquered a leading role, to the construction of a tourist village and wind farms , a business in which the mafia boss, through the entrepreneur Vito Nicastri , would also invest in Sicily. But, while Messina Denaro spent in Campobello was almost a normal life, in Calabria, according to investigators, the mafia boss would have had a fugitive similar to that of his historic Corleonese ally, Bernardo Provenzano forced to hide and move several times .