Matteo Messina Denaro has decided to speak before a judge for the first time since his arrest in early January. “I did not give the order to kill little Giuseppe Di Matteo” the statements of the mafia boss to the investigating judge of Palermo Alfredo Montalto. The Live Sicilia website reports that Cosa Nostra’s number one has shifted the blame to Giovanni Brusca, the executioner of San Giuseppe Jato. The Trapani mafia boss has denied any accusation made against him in the case: he did it repetitively to play the part of the victim in a story, which he says is unfair, in which he was portrayed as a monster in the story that led to his death of little Giuseppe Di Matteo – strangled and dissolved in acid at the age of 12 – who had the only fault of being the son of a collaborator of justice, Santino Di Matteo. A mistake that needed to be avenged. And that Messina Denaro (he has completed his cycle of chemotherapy and is taking drugs, but tests and checks continue for now) against Brusca, recently released after 25 years in prison.
