Like in a movie. Matteo Messina Denaro's second hideout was behind a wardrobe. Invisible, hidden by a sliding bottom covered by clothes : inside there is no bed or furnishings, the boss had created it to keep his "treasure" .

Jewels, necklaces, bracelets, precious stones and silverware found by the investigators, which will now be subjected to an appraisal to ascertain their authenticity and value.

Carabinieri and Gico of the Gdf discovered the room thanks to a confidential report: a real bunker created in an apartment on the ground floor of a building in Campobello di Mazara, less than a kilometer from the house that the godfather chose for the his last stay as a fugitive and bought with the boss's money by Andrea Bonafede, the surveyor who also lent him his identity.

There were boxes in the bunker: some full of papers now being examined by the Carabinieri del Ros, others empty, probably emptied immediately after Messina Denaro's arrest .

THE FLANKERS

The room was created in the home of an old acquaintance of the magistrates of the Dda: Errico Risalvato, already investigated and acquitted for mafia association, originally from Castelvetrano like the godfather and brother of Giovanni, who was sentenced to 14 years for the mafia . Now he's free, he's already served his sentence.

If the Rivasaltos are old acquaintances of the magistrates Giovanni Luppino, the farmer who served as the boss's driver and accompanied him to the Maddalena clinic where both were arrested on Monday was a "nobody", a clean record.

In the meantime, the list of supporters under investigation is getting longer. In addition to Luppino, arrested in the act, Andrea Bonafede is under investigation (this morning the house, which had been uninhabited for some time, owned by his mother ), the surveyor from Campobello who lent his identity to the boss, and two doctors are under investigation. One is from Trapani, Filippo Zerilli, head of oncology: it was he who subjected Messina Denaro to the DNA test necessary to prescribe chemotherapy. The other is Alfonso Tumbarello, an old doctor from Castelvetrano who was treating him .

«BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH THE MAGISTRATE»

Closed to the 41 bis in the prison of L'Aquila, Messina Denaro has already undergone medical examinations. The chemotherapy of the boss, whose conditions are serious and who according to the doctors has no more than three years to live , will be carried out in a reserved space in the prison.

There is currently no date for the questioning. So far there has been, as the chief prosecutor of Palermo Maurizio De Lucia said, only " a brief conversation that lasted a few minutes ".

« I explained to him that it is in the hands of the State - De Lucia underlined - and I told him that he will have full medical assistance. And he thanked her ."

(Unioneonline/L)

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