The key to an Alfa Romeo 164 found in Matteo Messina Denaro's purse : this was the input that allowed the carabinieri and magistrates to trace the last home of the boss , arrested yesterday after 30 years on the run , in Campobello di Mazara.
The investigators traced the vehicle using the key code and, thanks to an artificial intelligence system, reconstructed the movements of the Alfa, complete with images. Among the shots there was also that of the ex-fugitive who went in and out of the house with shopping bags.
The hideout was searched last night, a small 60 square meter apartment: a small living room, a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom in a two-story building in the heart of the town. The former Scarlet Pimpernel went shopping, attended restaurants, received women.
In the apartment, the carabinieri found designer sneakers, luxury clothes and perfumes, Rayban glasses, viagra pills, condoms, a refrigerator full of food, restaurant receipts . The house was registered in the name of Andrea Bonafede, the same surveyor who lent his identity to the boss, now under investigation.
For the moment it does not appear that there were documents of particular importance in the building, in fact the investigators suspect that there is a second home in which to look for the so-called treasure of Messina Denaro , which holds the secrets of Riina and the mafia massacres.
The boss "has been living here for at least six months" , explained the provincial commander of the Trapani carabinieri Fabio Bottino. «An apartment – he said – well renovated, which testifies that the economic conditions of the fugitive were good. Refined furnishings, of a certain standard, not luxurious but of an appreciable economic level. Searches and investigations are underway. We are detecting the presence of biological traces, of any hiding places or cavities where documentation may have been hidden. A job that will take days."
