Matteo Messina Denaro would be the mastermind of the project to attack the former prosecutor Nino Di Matteo. The new justice collaborator Alfredo Geraci would have revealed this to the magistrates of Palermo.
Geraci, 41, a member of the Mafia Family from Porta Nuova (a district of Palermo), decided to collaborate with the Italian justice system. He is presented as a trusted man of Alessandro D'Ambrogio, Geraci had notably managed the racketeering in the Ballaro district of Palermo.
He notably told the magistrates that he had loaned the apartment in which a mafia “summit” had been organized in December 2012. His boss D'Ambrogio had revealed to him that during this "summit", the request of Matteo Messina Denaro (main mafia boss still on the run, "reigning" over the west of Sicily) had been discussed to eliminate the Prosecutor Nino Di Matteo ( photo below ), in particular in charge of the case of negotiations between part of the Italian State and Cosa Nostra (" trattativa ") and now member of the Superior Council of Magistracy. Were present at this meeting: Vito Galatolo (former boss of the Acquasanta district), who came especially from Venice;Tonino Lipari, a man from the Porta Nuova neighborhood and D'Ambrogio's trusted man; Tonino Lauricella, head of the Villabate family; Giuseppe Fricano, regent of mandamento of Resuttana. Geraci was present to ensure the entry of the apartment to the bosses. As a result, a stock of 150 kilos of explosives had been sent from Calabria and Messina Denaro had provided an explosives "expert". The charge was to be placed in front of the Palermo Palace of Justice or in front of the magistrate's house. D'Ambrogio's arrest slowed down and the project then Galatolo was arrested and decided to collaborate by evoking this project.