Messina Denaro to the prosecutors: “I consider myself a man of honor, I will never repent.”

Last Updated: August 8, 2023

Messina Denaro ai pm: "Mi sento un uomo d'onore, non mi pentirò mai"

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“No, I consider myself a man of honor, in the sense of others… Not like a mafioso,” said Matteo Messina Denaro in response to questions from prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia and deputy Paolo Guido on February 13, 2023, in the high-security prison of L’Aquila.

“I will never become a repentant,” he said without hesitation, the boss Matteo Messina Denaro, after being interrogated by prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia and deputy Paolo Guido following his arrest.

The interrogation, in which the boss denies committing massacres and murders and trafficking drugs but admits to having corresponded with the Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, was deposited today. The terrorist boss, captured in Palermo on January 16, responds for the first time to the accusations of keeping a gun in the house where he spent the last part of his fugitive life and of using the false identity of Andrea Bonafede, a surveyor from Campobello di Mazara. He then voluntarily provides statements that end up in the investigations of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate about his accomplices. One investigation concerns the doctor Alfonso Tumbarello, whom Messina Denaro claims to be unaware that the treatments he prescribed for Bonafede were actually for him.

For Tumbarello – defended by lawyers Gioacchino Sbacchi and Giuseppe Pantaleo – a few days ago, the notice of conclusion of the investigations was issued, signed by De Lucia, Guido, and the substitutes Gianluca De Leo and Pierangelo Padova. And the record also includes the first interrogation of Messina Denaro, who in his own way admits to having had dealings with Bernardo Provenzano, being not responsible for the killing of the young Giuseppe Di Matteo, and having a very negative opinion of the former mayor of Castelvetrano, Tonino Vaccarino, “who betrayed me for money.”