The sister of Italy’s biggest mobster, recently caught and described as the “last godfather of the Sicilian mafia”, has been arrested after police searched her home and found pizzini – scraps of paper the mafia leader used to transmit handwritten instructions, News reports . ro with a link to The Guardian.

According to the investigation, Rosalia Messina Denaro, the sister of Matteo Messina Denaro – the most wanted man in Italy before his arrest on January 16 – helped her brother avoid the police for 30 years and acted on his behalf as a kind of “cashier” for the mafia. “family”. At the same time, she ran a ticketing network that allowed the mob boss to maintain relations with his organization during the long period he was on the run.

“Rosalia Messina Denaro was an absolute confidant of the mob boss,” said Alfredo Montalto, the judge who ordered her arrest. “She operated a pizzini chain through which Denaro passed his orders to other associates,” the judge said.

Some notes found by the carabinieri in a house in Castelvetrano, the mafia boss’s hometown on the southwest coast of Sicily, show the leader’s vision of life and his personal beliefs. Denaro, although he boasted that he was the godfather of the Sicilian mafia, saw himself as a scapegoat, a man persecuted by justice and the state.

“I consider it an honor to be accused of belonging to the Mafia at this moment,” Matteo Denaro wrote in his own handwriting on one of the pizzas found by police at his sister’s house. “We were persecuted as if we were villains, treated as if we were not part of the human race, we became an ethnic group to be erased,” he complains.

“They buried our land with this lie. We are bad, they are good,” Denaro wrote. “Every time there is a new arrest, more people suffer for this land. Every time someone is arrested, more people join our community who are unwilling to put up with this injustice. This is who we are, and one day, I’m sure, all of this will be recognized, and history will give us back what they took from us in life,” says Denaro.

The notes, which were hidden in a sofa cavity in Denaro’s sister’s home, were addressed to several people, including alleged members of the Mafia, some of whom had nicknames such as Condor, Cherry, Parmesan and Apple.

Rosalia Denaro also hid a pizzino with a detailed note about her brother’s health. Matteo Denaro was detained at a private clinic in Palermo, where he regularly received treatment for a tumor. He used the fictitious name Andrea Bonafede.

According to mob informants and prosecutors, Denaro, nicknamed Diabolik – the name of a fictional thief – and U Siccu – “Weak Leg” – kept secret some of the most heinous crimes committed by the Sicilian mafia, including the 1992 bombings that killed former anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, as well as the 1996 murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 12-year-old son of a bandit turned state witness, who was strangled and dissolved in acid.

Denaro is currently in a maximum security prison in the city of L’Aquila in central Italy, where he underwent his first chemotherapy session.

To date, the Carabinieri have found at least three apartments used by the bandit, including one where he used a closet full of clothes to hide the entrance to a secret bunker. In the hiding places, prosecutors found luxurious clothes, emeralds, diamonds, a poster of Francis Ford Coppola’s movie “The Godfather” and several books, including biographies of Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler. (News.ro)