Chi erediterà il ruolo di Matteo Messina Denaro? Le possibili ipotesi
“Cosa Nostra will have to replace Matteo Messina Denaro as a reference point for major operations. There are already those who are ready to take his place.” These were the words spoken by the Prosecutor of Palermo, Maurizio de Lucia, on January 16th. Just a few hours earlier, after being on the run for 30 years, the world’s most wanted mafia boss was arrested. He passed away on the night of September 24th, due to the consequences of stage four colon cancer.
It has been 8 months since then, but what has happened in the meantime? Who has taken the reins of the last notorious boss? Who will replace the last of the Corleonesi, who died last night from stage four colon cancer, which had forced him to stay in the inmate ward of San Salvatore Hospital in L’Aquila in recent weeks? The investigations did not end with his death. On the contrary, they continue at a rapid pace, both to uncover the networks of protection and connivance that allowed Messina Denaro to remain a fugitive for thirty years, and to understand who has replaced him. Because the boss was never the leader of Cosa Nostra, like Riina or Provenzano. As Prosecutor de Lucia said, “the Palermo clans would never accept being led by a non-Palermo native. Starting with someone from Trapani,” like Messina Denaro, who was originally from Castelvetrano.
Yet his figure was considered prominent in the hierarchy of Cosa Nostra. “The goal of the mafia is always the same: to identify new leaders and management structures. Unlike the Camorra, the mafia has a structure with a single head,” said the Prosecutor of Palermo at the press conference following the capture of the boss from Castelvetrano. “Cosa Nostra tends to rebuild its leadership. Now it will have to replace Matteo Messina Denaro as a reference point for major operations. There are already those who are ready to take his place.”
Who? Have the clans already chosen a new godfather? Since the death of the ‘Boss of all bosses’ Totò Riina, Cosa Nostra’s goal has been only one: to reconstitute the Cupola, the organized body within its hierarchical structure, to make the most important decisions and bring order to the entire organization. From Stefano Fidanzati, 70 years old, from the narcotics trafficking family of the Fidanzati dell’Arenella, to Giuseppe Auteri, also known as Vassoio, a fugitive, and even Sandro Capizzi, the son of boss Benedetto Capizzi from the Santa Maria di Gesù clan. In 2018, some bosses, as discovered by the Dda of Palermo, organized a summit to revive the provincial commission of Cosa Nostra, with the selection of a new boss of all bosses.” (by Elvira Terranova)
