By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
You cannot choose your family. You were born in it. It can be difficult for some, even more difficult for others. Patrizia Messina Denaro was born not in any family, but a powerful Mafia family in Sicily. His father and brother were gang bosses who reigned with an iron fist. Patrizia simply followed the path to come.
A rocky path.
His brother, Matteo Messina Denaro, was a ghost for most of his life. As a fugitive from around the world, he has run things in the shadows. His word was final. His orders and actions have caused death and destruction to hundreds if not thousands of people.
Patrizia was there for all this. The authorities say that she fiercely supported her brother. Just like another sister. However, Patrizia really went everything. Police said they even became an official “fact” member of Cosa Nostra. It is unknown that a woman goes up to such a position in the mafia.
If a woman did it, it would be the one linked to a mafioso like Matteo Messina Denaro. A man who rose alongside Toto Riina Corleonesi And who managed to work alongside his successor Bernardo Provenzano until he remained like the “boss of the bosses” in Sicily.
A man who was found guilty of participation in the murder in 1992 of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino; The attacks of deadly bombs in Milan, Florence and Rome a year later, which cost the lives of 10 people; And the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the teenage son of Santino, a mafioso who decided to become witness to the government and to testify against his former colleagues on the murder of Falcone in which he participated.
Its status did not protected it from the law. Italian police arrested her in 2013 and said she was controlling family affairs, supervised the extortion racket and transmitted her brother's orders. Several of her companies and those who belong to her and her husband have been seized by the authorities, including an olive oil company. His bank accounts were frozen.
She was sentenced and sentenced to 14 and a half in prison. While she was sitting in a prison cell, her brother remained on the run. He has been doing it since 1993 and would do it for 30 years.
Until January 16, 2023, when the police arrested him While the nonsense boss of the mafia went to Palermo where he received cancer treatment in a private clinic. Although a massive success, he came with bitter aftertaste. Messina Denaro was sick and died. He would never really pay his sins with a long prison sentence as he deceased at 61 in September 2023.
Yesterday, Patrizia, 55, was released from Vigevano Pavia prison in northern Italy after serving her sentence. She enters a new underground world, including a more dominated by her brother. What path will it choose now?
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