He had a double identity, as well as in real life, also on social media. Matteo Messina Denaro was Francesco Averna on Facebook And Instagram. She was hiding behind the name of a doctor, single, who professed to be a graduate of Bocconi in Milan with a passion for luxury and beautiful women. As a profile photo she had put a little dog with a scarf, a little quirk. According to investigations, the boss used Facebook not for writing posts but above all for private Messenger messaging. And there are many women with whom he exchanged a few jokessome of whom he later met under the pseudonym of Francesco Averna.
The first investigations by investigators in 2013
Other accounts with which he was in contact tell of his normal life, between clubs and gyms. Already in 2013, Messina Denaro’s searches had appeared on Facebook: at the time, it was suspected that the secret dialogue between the boss and his sister Anna Patrizia took place there. The woman had chosen the name of a Roman empress, Lucilla, for her account. And Francesco Averna was obviously an invented name: the ROS soldiers discovered that with this identity the fugitive presented himself to a dishwasher technician summoned to the house in via San Giovanni, in Campobello di Mazara, in 2020. “It was Andrea Bonafede who called me – the worker explained to the police – telling me that his cousin needed a repair”. According to a note from ROS, Francesco Averna had a double life in Palermo with Bonafede, already in 2012: they both went shopping in a
renowned gastronomy in via Daita, a stone’s throw from the Politeama.
