He did not lie.
He merely looked up and said: “You know who I am.
I am Matteo Messina Denaro.”
He checked in for an appointment at the clinic under the name of Andrea Bonafede.
He was convicted in absentia in 2002 of a string of murders.
That was also the year that Messina Denaro vanished.
Nadublogged this yesterday but he kind of mailed it in.
Or maybe he was upset because the bad guy lost.
I don’t know.
But this is a huge fucking deal.
This is El Chapo level huge.
Maybe bigger to be honest.
But for Europe and southern Italy, this is massive.
Matteo Denaro is what our former president would call a “bad hombre”.
And what our current president would call a “bad bunny”.
But he also terrorized the country of Italy and held a stranglehold on its citizens for just as long.
This piece of shit was found directly responsible for a ton of really awful, vile shit.
Here’s justsomeof his highlight reel:
This guy is a true piece of shit human.
There’s a reason he is nicknamed “il diavolo”, aka “the devil”.
He once boasted he could “fill a cemetery” with his victims.
He is thought to be Cosa Nostra’s last “secret-keeper”.
They took to the streets to applaud the Carabinieri.
He was protected in much the same way Whitey Bulger was here in America.
For over a decade, police cracked down on anyone suspected of protecting or aiding Messina Denaro.
So it’s somewhat of a pyrrhic victory for the authorities having finally caught him.
Details of how Messina Denaro lived before his arrest are now starting to emerge.
A neighbour told Italian TV that he frequently saw the man and that they would greet one another regularly.
They prey on the weak.
They use fear and intimidation to extort and manipulate.
They peddle drugs into communities which ruin millions of lives.
They recruit young, impressionable, and vulnerable young men into their ranks, and kill with zero regard.
This fallacy that “they only kill each other” is bullshit.
This was another huge win, milestone moment for Italy.
And the good guys.
Let’s hope this streak continues.
You won’t be disappointed.
It’s a raw and honest depiction of organized crime in southern Italy.
(HBO Max has the entire series, I recommend watching it in Italian with English subtitles on.
The voice dubbing in English is bad.)
- check out Nadu’s podcast “The Sitdown” on iTunes.
Hopefully he has me back on soon to discuss this story.
