I'll tell you the story of Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive since 1993 and suspected of managing dozens of international companies and businesses

Born in Castelvetrano, on April 26, 1962, he is an Italian mafioso, linked to Cosa nostra, considered among the most dangerous and wanted fugitives in the world, godson of Riina, grew up with the Corleonesi and is the only one left out of the captures that followed the Maxi Trial of the Mafia, he is still a fugitive and there is no trace of where he could be.

Messina Denaro is the son of Francesco Messina Denaro, brother of Patrizia Messina Denaro and uncle of Francesco Guttadauro. Together with his father, Messina Denaro worked as a farmer on the agricultural estates of the D'Alì Staiti family, former owners of the Banca Sicula of Trapani, at the time the most important private banking institution in Sicily, and of the salt pans of Trapani. His confirmation godfather is Antonino Marotta, a "man of honour" and former member of Salvatore Giuliano's gang, also involved in the mysterious death of the bandit. In 1989 Messina Denaro was denounced for mafia association because he was considered involved in the bloody feud between the Accardo and Ingoglia clans of Partanna. In 1991 he was also responsible for the murder of Nicola Consales, owner of a hotel in Triscina, who had complained to his Austrian employee (who was also Messina Denaro's lover) about "those mobsters always around". Matteo Messina Denaro actually holds the role of head of the Castelvetrano clan and its district, an ally of the Corleonesi since the mafia war of the early 1980s. In fact, in the following years the collaborator of justice Baldassare Di Maggio will declare that he was "a rampant young man, even if he is not already the boss, and his father has given him a broad delegation of representation of the district" (the father was in fact a fugitive since 1990).

In 1992 Messina Denaro was part of a fire group, made up of mafiosi from Brancaccio and the province of Trapani, which was sent to Rome to carry out stalking against the television presenter Maurizio Costanzo and to kill Giovanni Falcone and the minister Claudio Martelli, doing use of Kalashnikovs, rifles and revolvers, procured by Messina Denaro himself; some time later, however, the boss Salvatore Riina brought back the firing squad, because he wanted the attack on Falcone to be carried out differently. In July 1992 Messina Denaro was among the material executors of the murder of Vincenzo Milazzo (head of the Alcamo clan), who had begun to show intolerance of Riina's authority; a few days later, Messina Denaro brutally strangled also Milazzo's companion, Antonella Bonomo, who was three months pregnant: the two bodies were then buried in the countryside of Castellammare del Golfo. Subsequently, Messina Denaro was also part of the fire group that carried out the failed attack on Deputy Chief Calogero Germanà, in Mazara del Vallo (September 14, 1992).

After Riina's arrest, Messina Denaro was in favor of continuing the strategy of bomb attacks, together with the bosses Leoluca Bagarella, Giovanni Brusca and the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano; Messina Denaro in fact made one of his men available, Antonio Scarano (a drug dealer of Calabrian origin residing in Rome), to provide logistical support to the Palermo fire group that carried out the bomb attacks in Florence, Milan and Rome, which caused a total of ten dead and 106 injured, as well as damage to the artistic heritage.