The Cosa Nostra boss’s revolver was found in one of his hideouts

The Italian authorities have found a “Smith & Wesson” revolver, along with five cartridges, in one of the hideouts in Campobello di Mazara (Sicily, southern Italy) where the head of Cosa Nostra Matteo Messina Denaro he spent the last months of his escape of more than 30 years from Justice.

The weapon is of the special 38 caliber and has the serial number erased, reported today the Carabineros (militarized police), who do not rule out that it is the personal firearm of Messina Denaroconsidered the last godfather of the bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia.

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“A box with another 20 cartridges of the same caliber” was also found in the same search, carried out in one of the three houses where he lived in the last year. Messina Denaroarrested on the 16th or when he went to a clinic in the Sicilian capital, Palermo (south), to be treated for colon cancer.

This is the latest finding of the special operative group of the Carabinieri during the exhaustive searches that have been carried out since the arrest to search for data that reveals the network of collaborators who covered up for all these years the most wanted criminal in Italy who, despite this condition He led an almost normal life.

In fact, agents of the police and the Finance Guard (militarized police) have joined the searches in recent hours, which are also carried out in Trapani, the provincial capital, in the places where the trail has been followed. of the possible presence of the mafia boss.

The three caches found so far are all in Campobello di Mazara, a town of about 11,000 inhabitants and less than 10 kilometers from the hometown of Messina DenaroCastelvetrano.

Inside it so far, branded clothing and shoes, jewelry, precious stones, numerous restaurant bills, condoms, Viagra and, according to the media, plane tickets to the United Kingdom and South America have been found, as the Prosecutor’s Office prefers not to specify yet. the destinations you were traveling to.

In addition, in their houses, Messina Denaro It had, among other things, a wide collection of objects from the saga of “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola as well as history books, including a biography of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Source: Elcomercio

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