Stepfather at the Terminal Station

Parisa Pasandepour
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Stepfather at the Terminal Station

Stepfather at the terminal

Matteo Messina Denaro

According to Iran Gate’s report, Matteo Messina Denaro, the stepfather at the terminal, was arrested yesterday, January 16, after 30 years on the run, in a private clinic in the city of Palermo. He was apprehended while waiting in line for a COVID test. He was born on April 26, 1962, and is the son of Francesco Messina Denaro, the head of the Castelvetrano mafia group.

Due to his family background, his fate led him to play an important role in the Cosa Nostra mafia group. He learned how to handle weapons at the age of 14 and committed his first murder at 18. He once told one of his friends that with the people he has killed, he could build a cemetery.

Murders and crimes of Matteo Messina Denaro

In the past, he has been sentenced to life imprisonment twice in separate trials. In 2000, in the Omega trial, he was convicted for his significant role in the bombings and killings that took place in Rome, Florence, and Milan in 1993. Later, in 2020, he was convicted as the mastermind behind the massacre at Capaci and Via D’Amelio, targeting Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, and the kidnapping of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of a former mafia member who had turned informant and cooperated with the police.

1 bloody conflict between the Accardo group and the Inguillai Parthana

The first complaint against him occurred when Matteo Messina was 27 years old. In 1989, he was involved in a conflict between two mafia groups, Accardo and Inguillia Partana, and was convicted of association with a mafia group. In 1991, he was implicated in the murder of Nicola Consalvo, the owner of a hotel in Trichina. The reason for Consalvo’s murder was his complaint against Messina’s Austrian employee, who happened to be the lover of the city’s mafia boss.

2 murders: Alcamo’s boss and his fiancée

In July 1992, he was one of the perpetrators of the murder of Vincenzo Milazzo, the leader of the Alcamo gang. A few days later, he suffocated Antonella Bonomo, Milazzo’s pregnant fiancée. He escaped and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1993, when he started hiding and fleeing, an arrest warrant was issued for him on charges of membership in a mafia gang, mass murder, destruction, possession and transportation of explosive materials, theft, and other minor crimes. In 2000, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by the court.

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4 Joseph De Matteo’s children dissolved in acid

Matteo Messina Denaro was one of the organizers and leaders of the kidnapping of Giuseppe Di Matteo, in order to coerce his father Santino into reclaiming his confessions and testimonies regarding the Cosa Nostra massacre. After 779 days of captivity, the child was silenced by Messina’s associates and his body dissolved in acid. In 1994, Messina Denaro ordered a bombing against Totò Cuffaro, a former mafia member who had expressed remorse for his past.

5 Massacres

On October 21, 2020, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Sicily due to his significant role as one of the organizers of the Cosa Nostra crimes. The crimes included a terrorist attack orchestrated by the Italian mafia on May 23, 1992, in the city of Capaci, located on the island of Sicily, Italy. Following this terrorist attack, Judge Giovanni Falcone, his family, several police officers were murdered, and there was also a street bombing in Palermo, Sicily, on July 19, 1992, carried out by the Sicilian mafia.

In this incident, Paolo Borsellino, an Italian anti-mafia judge, and five members of his police escort, Augustino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, the first female Italian police escort member, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Cosina, and Claudio Traina, were killed while performing their duties.

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