The journalist Marco Bova tells ‘Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive from the State’

Matteo Messina Denaro, wanted since 1993, the last of the bosses protagonists of the Cosa Nostra massacre season still on the loose, is among the most dangerous fugitives in the world. ‘Godson’ by Totò Riina and undisputed leader of the Trapani mafia, Messina Denaro “seems an elusive ghost: in these thirty years, countless tracks have been followed, colossal efforts by the state, while the announcements of an imminent capture continue to always frustrated hopes “. That’s why the journalist Marco Bova decided to write a book. ‘Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive from the state. Judiciary, law enforcement, Freemasonry: the whole truth on the sunken tracks’ (Ponte alle Grazie), with a preface by Paolo Mondani and the collaboration and care of Simona Zecchi, investigative journalist and author of investigations. In this book Marco Bova goes through every attempt, every wrong path, every stumbling block in detail through an unpublished investigative work and with the contribution of direct sources, such as those of the police forces whose work has been hindered. And mercilessly highlights the errors, the internal disputes and jealousies, the interference, the chronic lack of coordination and above all the attempts to bury those who worked hard for the capture. On the other hand, an evolving mafia emerges, indeed already transformed into a New Thing: the links with Freemasonry and with the ‘salons’, infiltrations into the world of high finance, international interests. “Matteo Messina Denaro, heir to the rough and brutal mafia of Corleonesi, is the symbol of this mutation – says the author – that the state fails and sometimes does not want to understand. That the state does not know or does not want to arrest. the story is the disconcerting and unpublished story of the finance officer Carlo Pulici who, removed from the prosecutor’s office after being involved in investigations that turned out to be a bluff, discovers the stealing of some files only partially returned to him after his removal. other people’s hands “. “There are many reconstructions and unpublished elements then of this long hunt that arises far from and in opposition to the gossip generated so far with news or boutade about his capture (September 2021), or on the face that would relate to 2009 appeared on TV, something not proven – says the author Bova – Some of these reconstructions focus on the hunt for Bernardo Provenzano, to whom the one against Matteo was running parallel and without focus. Folder number 10944/08 on his capture has been open since 1993 but what is really relevant often does not go to converge there: due to overlaps between prosecutors, law enforcement agencies and special investigative sections, not only misdirection but also the desire to put the hat on the operation that actually hinders it. double thread to the impregnable Matteo, buried together with those concerning his hunt. Unpublished documents, testimonies and interviews that to the rhythm of a personal story that the young author does, but an expert in investigations and in the territory in which all this moves and flows, returns a new and sensational picture of the imperishable failure to capture Matteo. On the contrary, there is no lack of wiretapping of magistrates who in some way favored, it is not known whether this voluntarily or not, endlessly postponing their capture. The book, whose frame is established between the prologue and the epilogue with the interview also unpublished by the former mayor and professor Antonio Vaccarino (used in the past by the services to get closer to Diabolik as Matteo is also called), released to the author before of dying, reveals the chiaroscuro of this long hunt without abandoning himself to the spicy and peppery tales rather close to the “color” that in recent years have raged in the news and publications “.