A perfected encrypted communication system emerges from the mafioso's and his associates' communications and diaries, where literary references abound: Campobello, in the province of Trapani, becomes the "Macondo" of Garca Marquez. Each person has many pseudonyms that alter depending on the situation.
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| Italian Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro |
It takes a puzzle solver to decipher the boss Matteo Messina Denaro's notes and pizzini. And that's precisely what the investigators have been doing ever since the last of the Corleonesi was apprehended in Palermo in the middle of January. In the city's various hideouts, as well as in the residences of other suspects, including his sister Rosalia and the teacher Laura Bonafede, who was arrested yesterday, valuable writings have been discovered that are crucial for reconstructing the movements, relationships, and affairs of the former super-fugitive. The "Messina Denaro Code" is a sophisticated encrypted communication system with literary references that varies depending on the situation, therefore breaking it is by no means easy.
As a result, the same individual can have more than one pseudonym, which changes and automatically affects the other interlocutors'. You must have the "keys" to comprehend. Several have already been purchased.
The tumor that becomes "the Romanian" that drains strength
Sifting through the pizzini, one discovers, for example, that the tumor Messina Denaro is suffering from becomes "the Romanian" who drains strength and energy and that "the sleazy" is not a person, but the La Maddalena clinic, where the mafioso was operated on in 2021 and then continued his oncological treatments, including the session of 16 January at 8, when he was however blocked and captured by the Ros carabinieri.
The pseudonyms that change according to the circumstances
The language used in the pizzini and the diaries, which the prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia, the deputy Paolo Guido, and the substitutes Gianluca De Leo and Pierangelo Padova, who coordinate the investigation on the boss's supporters, are gradually revealing. If Rosalia Messina Money, arrested recently and who unwittingly contributed significantly to her brother's capture after thirty years on the run, was "Fragolone," Laura Bonafede, the teacher who ended up in prison yesterday and who also allegedly lived with Messina Denaro for a long period of his in hiding, he would have had several aliases: "Cugin", "Amico", "Mio", "Blu", "Venesia"
Campobello is the "Macondo" of Garcìa Marquez
Martina Gentile, Bonafede's daughter, for whom the prosecution had requested the arrest, would have been "Tania", "Tany", "Lupetta", but possibly "Cromatina". The detectives determined that "Donna" was Laura Bonafede's mother, and "Man" was her father, Leonardo Bonafede, the now-deceased mafia boss of Campobello di Mazara, who was "revered by his daughter," according to the investigators. Instead, "the woman who helps Venesia" is a young Romanian who would have assisted her instructor ("Venesia") in caring for her mother. Some linguistic ploys then delineate a type of parallel world: Castelvetrano becomes "Aragona," and Campobello becomes "Macondo," with a nod to the hamlet in which the novel "Centennial" is set.
Numerous code names that have yet to be decrypted
As the investigations progress, more pseudonyms emerge from pre-trial detention orders that the investigators have yet to decipher. "A3B" occurs in reference to the person who took Laura Bonafede to jail, but also "Sollimano" and "Pancione," two persons to whom "a warning," which the investigators believe may have been murder, would have been necessary.I've always known Sollimano was obsessed with money - Laura Bonafede wrote to Messina Denaro - and that he liked to spend and earn easy money, but I never imagined it would go so far. In my opinion, it is connected to the dread of that warning that he thinks about Man, in addition to money (Leonardo Bonafede,).
Source: This article first appeared on Today.it .