Mafia, prosecutor Paci: "Messina Denaro for Riina was like a son"
June 12 2020
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" Matteo Messina Denaro is one who burns the stages because during the 80s he proves to be a purebred horse. He commits dozens of murders, even excellent ones. Let's say that in terms of ability there is hardly any discussion. A faithful of Totò Riina since the 80s ". The prosecutor Gabriele Paci said it during the indictment for the trial of Matteo Messina Denaro, accused of being one of the instigators of the attacks by Capaci and Via D'Amelio, which is celebrated before the Assize Court of Caltanissetta.

"Of the proximity of Matteo Messina Denaro to Riina - added the prosecutor - not only did the collaborators of justice talk about it but Riina himself talks about it in prison as one who was the light of his eyes. The father had put it in his hands "And I made him good," he said, remembering this mobster who had grown up on his knees. He speaks of him as an affectionate father, but suddenly anger explodes because this young man that he had raised had betrayed his teachings and so instead of putting bombs, he started doing business. "

"Around the fugitive of the accused Messina Denaro, the figure of a mafioso who does business, who dresses Armani, who makes light poles as Totò Riina says in the Opera prison in Milan, one of that mafia who chose the strategy submergence ", continued Paci during the indictment.

"The trial instead gives us a different figure of the accused: of a bloodthirsty executioner who killed innocent people and children, a massacre. They are two parts of the same figure - he continued - in '92 he was just thirty years old when Cosa nostra launched his deadly attack on the state, in response to the sentences of the Maxiprocesso ".

"If Messina Denaro had not endorsed Riina's massacre strategy, deciding not to go against the state, what would Riina have done," added Paci.

"In the meantime - he continued - he could not have counted on the people of Trapani and could not have spent part of the hiding in Mazara del Vallo and Castelvetrano. So the speech of the consensus of the people of Trapani, in the person of Matteo Messina Denaro, is a fundamental consensus. Riina would not have he could never have ordered what he did without them. If everyone hadn't gone after him, he wouldn't have been able to wage war on the state, and what his diabolical mind had already worked out. "