Inside an Italian mob boss’s ‘regular life.’ What authorities discovered after arrest – National | 24CA News

Perfumes, designer garments and intercourse drugs have been discovered on Tuesday in an house which investigators imagine was the final hideout of Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, judicial sources mentioned, a day after the arrest of the fugitive.

Messina Denaro, 60, caught on Monday at a personal hospital in Palermo after 30 years on the run, is being held within the central Italian metropolis of L’Aquila, the Palermo prosecutor mentioned. He was transferred from Sicily on the day of his arrest.

The house is in a modest constructing close to the centre of Campobello di Mazara, a city within the Western Sicilian province of Trapani, just some kilometers from Messina Denaro’s residence city of Castelvetrano.

Investigators discovered garments, sneakers, a well-stocked fridge and restaurant receipts there, judicial sources mentioned. They additionally discovered efficiency drugs.

“He had a regular life, he went to the supermarket,” mentioned Justice of the Peace Paolo Guido, one the officers investigating Messina Denaro.

Neighbors described him as a pleasant particular person.

“I live on the first floor of the building, sometimes I have seen this person, greeted him and nothing else. He responded in a cordial manner,” Rosario Cognata advised Italian media.

Messina Denaro was identified for his style for luxurious items, together with designer garments and costly sun shades. Police mentioned he was carrying a watch price 35,000 euros (US$38,000) when he was arrested.

Messina Denaro is believed to have lived within the house for the previous 12 months, judicial sources mentioned, however police are nonetheless trying to find different locations the place he might need frolicked.

Investigators imagine Messina Denaro was pushed on Monday to Palermo’s La Maddalena hospital from Campobello di Mazara to be handled for most cancers. The city was residence to his alleged aide Giovanni Luppino, who was arrested with him.

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Police positioned underneath investigation medical physician Alfonso Tumbarello on suspicion of aiding and abetting the mafia boss, judicial sources mentioned, as a result of he attended to Messina Denaro, who was present process anti-cancer remedy underneath a false identify.

The sources mentioned he gave the identify of Andrea Bonafede, who was the proprietor of the house Messina Denaro was dwelling in, and who can be underneath investigation.

Nicknamed “‘U Siccu” (The Skinny One), Messina Denaro picked up 20 life jail phrases in trials held in absentia for his function in an array of mob murders, together with the bomb assaults that killed anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.

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