The voice of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro printed on a magnetic tape. For the first time, Tg1 broadcasts an exclusive audio document with the deposition of the most wanted Cosa Nostra fugitive in Italy. The cassette containing the recording of the voice of the Cosa Nostra fugitive boss was kept in the archives of the Court of Marsala. It dates back to March 18, 1993, when the boss testified at the Accardo trial, on one of the many mafia murders in Partanna, the city of his district. ” Listen ”, the prosecutor asks him, “do you remember if you were heard by the Trapani mobile squad, after the death of a certain Accardo Francesco da Partanna?”. “Look”, replies the boss, “I, in that period, I have undergone dozens of interrogations for every murder that has happened.” Two and a half months later he will become a fugitive.The cassette, kept in the archives of the Court of Marsala, was found thanks to the work of the Anti-Mafia Association Rita Atria and the newspaper ‘Le Siciliane’. ” Certainly hear the voice of Matteo Messina Denaro. it’s something really important. The investigations of the police, carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza have been going on for over twenty years and therefore it is evident that they too have comparative documents, including sound ones, suitable for making comparisons. Elements of this type are therefore important precisely to allow comparison whenever necessary ”, says the national anti-mafia prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho on Tg1 talking about audio. ” The activities in progress – he adds – are enormous, just think that in recent years hundreds of members of the Cosa Nostra who make up the network that facilitates and supports his inaction have been arrested. Suffice it to say that the assets that have been seized as part of these investigations are almost three billion euros ”. When asked if he has the hope of being able to arrest him shortly, De Raho replies: “ I already said it two years ago, I thought that this could happen within the same year. It is certain that the effort and commitment that the state is investing in this investigative activity is enormous. There are many strands of the police, carabinieri and financial police all coordinated by the district attorney of Palermo ”.
