On Matteo Messina Denaro’s “high” protections.
I'm about to say things that are about to be accused of racism, leghismo, and I don't know what else. But I don't give a damn: there is no progress without truth. And when I say the truth, I'm referring to the prank according to which the mafioso allegedly enjoyed "very high" sympathy in the "high" areas of the Sicilian bourgeoisie, and the related "politicians" and "powerful". Which, as you can see, it's not.
This conspiracy with a hypertrophic ego is somewhat irritating, according to which in order to remain free as he has done, the mafioso would have needed very high levels of support and sympathy in the upper strata of society. But things are not exactly like that.
What does it take to have a false document in the name of a certain Bonafede? We need the complicity of bonafides and another criminal, who is a credit card counterfeiter.
And what is needed to buy a house in the name of Bonafede? We need money, and the complicity of a certain Bonafede. Is Bonafede a member of the Sicilian Upper Bourgeoisie? No. He is any member of the Sicilian population.
What does it take to go to treatment without being reported? We need the complicity of the other patients, the complicity of the nurses and that of the doctors.
What does it take to go to the same bar six months in a row without being sued? They need the complicity of a few hundred patrons and the bartender.
What does it take to woo women and make a playboy life? We need the complicity of women.
What does it take to dress stylishly? We need the complicity of the owner of a clothing store.
What does it take to dig a bunker under a condominium in a popular neighborhood? We need the complicity of a group of bricklayers, and the silence of the condominiums, neither of them wondering what the hell a bunker is doing in the building where they live.
Can it work for 30 years? Yup'. If there is the complicity of the entire population involved , or almost, it can last even 30 years.
This is the lie that gets on my nerves. Refusing to admit, even when the evidence is clear, that there is any responsibility on the part of the "people", and to throw it all on a hypothetical "bourgeoisie", on "powers that be" and on "politicians".
Was the Mafioso perhaps hosted in a luxury resort, usually frequented by very rich politicians and industrialists? No. He lived in a modest apartment in a popular neighborhood, surrounded by "normal" families and normal "passers-by".
He went to buy meat from the butcher, went shopping in a normal, very popular supermarket, and so on. He wasn't surrounded by bourgeois or rich people or politicians. He was surrounded by the "people".
Of course, if he had wintered on Epstein's pedophile island, we would have had to conclude that he was convicted by the silence of the American upper class. If he had slept in a bunker under the Norman palace, we would have had to conclude that he had the support and silence of local politicians.
But he slept in a normal popular apartment building, had a bunker under another popular apartment building, went to a normal popular bar and shopped in a normal supermarket.
You don't need politicians to do this. We don't need bourgeois. We don't need the rich and we don't need the powerful. All we need is a population so anthropologically identical to the Mafioso, that no one notices the difference between him and any Bonafede.
And what about the interviews with "ordinary people", starting from those who "wrong to arrest him", up to "I don't trust the state?". Billionaires? Politicians? Upper class?
Honestly, it looks like “local population” to me.
And that's why he stayed in Sicily. If he had known that he enjoyed very high protections in Rome, he would have lived at least in Lazio. If he had known that he had very high protections in Lombardy, he would have lived in Lombardy.
But the place where he felt safe was a popular condominium, it was an anonymous town in Sicily, it was a bar in a popular neighborhood where he went every morning, it was a clinic that was certainly not a luxury superclinic, it was just any Buonafede.
That's why he stayed there. You hide where you know no one will find you. And that place was Sicily. Not South America. Not Africa. Not Asia. Sicily.
Am I racist? Tell me as well. I am not interested. We have seen what we have seen and the facts are the facts that we have seen.
The rest are philosophers' arguments. But if I want to listen to a philosopher, I go to McDonald's, where philosophers work today.
All we have seen today is that Matteo Denaro Messina lived undisturbed for 30 years, surrounded and protected by the lower strata of the Sicilian population.
That's all. You don't see "upper bourgeois", you don't see "powerful" or "political". You see patrons of bars, bricklayers, nurses, any doctor.
Conspiracy theories about "very high supporters" are just a way to absolve a population of its guilt.
A narrative made to hide a fact that emerges clear: he was surrounded by his own.
Or by the local population.