An alleged abettor of Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested. He is Giuseppe Di Giorgio, a 49-year-old from Mazara del Vallo, a town where the Palermo DDA began searches yesterday to find the boss’s hideout
An alleged abettor of Matteo Messina Denaro was stopped today, Thursday 18 July, in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily. It is about Joseph DiGiorgioa 49-year-old Italian, against whom the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the arrest for illegal possession of a weapon, aggravated aiding and abetting and procuring non-compliance with the sentenceThe DDA managed to get to Di Giorgi thanks to the operation, which began yesterday, of inspection and search of a residential complex in Mazara del Vallo in which, from the results of months and months of investigations, it was presumed that one of the hideouts of the deceased mafia boss of Cosa Nostra. It could contain computers and essential documents. Furthermore, the property checked appears to have been a usual meeting point between Messina Denaro and his lover Lorenza Lanceri. This seems to be confirmed by the fact that the couple was in possession of some keys that opened the gates of the condominium complex.
The discovery of connected garages
The Prosecutor’s Office ordered a search of the building and some garages and this was carried out by the Carabinieri of the ROS and from the State Police. These have ascertained that the lock of two of the garages, directly connected to each other, one used by Di Giorgi and the other by a relative of his, was opened by two more keysdifferent from those that led to the property. The Before had been seized during thearrest of Rosalia Messina Denaro, sister of the bossand the other had been seized from Andrea Bonafedethe surveyor who lent his identity to the former wanted man. According to investigators, the two connected garages they would have been safe and unsuspected places for Messina Denaro in which Hide documents and correspondenceInside the boxes, a kitchenette and a bed had been set up.
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The search in Di Giorgi’s house
After the discovery of the two boxes, the search has extended to the Di Giorgi’s house where one was found Walther pistol perfectly functional, never reported and hidden in the closet among the clothes. Next to the weapon there were also some ammunition. The man reportedly told investigators that he had found the gun on the street and brought it home. According to the prosecutors, according to what was reported by Handlethe fugitive would have had the availability and the possibility to access the parking area in a reserved way of the real estate complex and to one of the garages thanks to the help of Di Giorgi who, in addition to making the garage available to him, would have kept the firearm and the bullets ready for use on his behalf.
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