Police investigating a murderous mafia boss have discovered posters of Al Pacino because the Godfather and Joaquin Phoenix because the Joker within the condominium the place he’s thought to have lived earlier than his arrest.
Matteo Messina Denaro, previously Italy’s most needed man, was detained within the Sicilian capital Palermo on 16 January after 30 years on the run as he was going to a personal hospital for most cancers therapy.
Italian police additionally stated they discovered a loaded Smith & Wesson .38 caliber particular revolver, and a package deal with an additional 20 rounds of the identical bullets in the identical condominium.
As properly because the Godfather and Joker film posters, officers’ footage confirmed the boss had an image of a lion on his lounge wall, whereas a calendar that includes a scantily-clad girl was discovered hanging in a small room he used as a private gymnasium.
Everyday objects akin to an ironing board and a drying rack had been additionally discovered, together with perfumes and designer garments.
The condominium the place Messina Denaro was believed to be residing within the months earlier than he was detained, was in a modest constructing in Campobello di Mazara, just a few miles away from his house city of Castelvetrano.
He was residing a “regular” life there, together with going to the grocery store, in accordance with magistrates.
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Messina Denaro, 60, is being held in a high-security jail close to the central Italian metropolis of l’Aquila, the place he will likely be beneath robust restrictions aimed toward stopping mobsters from working legal actions from jail.
He was sentenced in absentia in 2020 to a life time period for his position within the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
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He additionally faces a life sentence for his position in bomb assaults in Florence, Rome and Milan which killed 10 individuals the next yr.
Messina Denaro can be accused of being solely or collectively liable for quite a few different murders within the Nineties.
Source: information.sky.com”