Where Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro Is Now
What happened to Matteo Messina Denaro, the mafia leader featured in World's Most Wanted? Directed by Cyprien D’Haese and Caroline Du Sant, the fifth and final episode of the Netflix documentary series, which released in August 2020, explores the life and times of the current "boss of all bosses."
As detailed in World's Most Wanted, Denaro was born into a
Sicilian crime family, and rose to power during the late '90s. The subject has
been a fugitive since 1993, due the bombing deaths of mafia investigators
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. "The Sicilian" is described as
"a bit cross-eyed" by friend Giuseppe Fontana in World's Most Wanted,
and anti-mafia director Rocca Lo Pane reveals that authorities don't have any
audio recordings of the mafioso's voice.
World's Most Wanted ultimately reveals that Denaro remains a
fugitive in the present. In December 2013, his sister Patrizia was arrested but
refused to offer any information about her brother. Denaro's second cousin
Giuseppe Cimarosa appears in Netflix docuseries, and discusses the consequences
faced after his late father Lorenzo turned on Denaro. World's Most Wanted ends
without any current updates on the subject's whereabouts, but suggests that his
presence is felt all throughout Italy, and certainly within Trapani.
There haven't been any major revelations about Denaro since
World's Most Wanted premiered. An informant reportedly spotted the mafia boss
in 2014, which led to a new "e-fit" showing that Denaro had gained
weight and now has a receding hairline. Aside from that, the Netflix
documentary subject hasn't been seen, reportedly because of the betrayal from
his right-hand man, the aforementioned Cimarosa. With nobody left to trust,
Denaro now operates his empire in hiding.
In December 2014, Italian authorities reportedly seized
Denaro's olive grove assets in Trapani. Three years later, a massive search was
conducted in his hometown of Castelvetrano. Due to Denaro's overwhelming
influence in Trapani, he reportedly receives protection from the Provenzano and
Graviano clans. For some historical context, Bernardo Provenzano was a Sicilian
"boss of bosses" who was head of the Corleonesi, a crime organization
based in Corleone, Sicily; the inspiration for the focal family in The
Godfather movie franchise.
After Povenzano's 2016 passing, the new "bosses of
bosses" was Denaro's mentor, Salvatore "Totò" Riina, who
orchestrated the aforementioned murders of the Sicilian investigators Falcone
and Borsellino. Riina passed away in 2017, which is why Denaro is now viewed as
the new head of the Italian mafia. In World's Most Wanted on Netflix, the official
episode title describes the subject as "Cosa Nostra's Last
Godfather."
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