He could relate to affiliation with Cosa Nostra et al baptism by killer the date that Matteo Messina Money he got a tattoo during the in the run. The tattoo that the boss had on his left arm read: October 8, 1981 in Roman numerals. «An important date for me», the former fugitive himself told his sisters during an interview in prison after the arrest. On 8 October 1981 the mafia boss he was 19 and a half years old and was the scion of the family of Don Ciccio Messina Money. The date, the investigators suspect, could mark a fundamental moment in his life: the formal entry into Cosa Nostra followed, the following day, by the young boss’s debut as a killer. On October 9th, in fact, he went down in history as the Black Friday in Palermo, a bloody day in which, in the midst of the mafia war, they occurred in a few hours 4 murders in the city and one in the province.
Crimes to which Matteo Messina Money, investigators believe, may have participated. The victims of the rain of fire that bloodied the city were Antonino Vitalea farmer killed in the Brancaccio district, the convicted mafioso Calogero Misuracaresident in Cinisi, killed in Piazza Marina while leaving the building of the Intendenza di Finanza, Agostino Calabriaformer bus driver, killed a few meters from the place where Vitale had been killed hours earlier Giovanni Costanza street vendor, also eliminated in the same area. In the evening between Campofiorito and Bisacquino, in the Palermo area, the body of Giuseppe Stabile, breeder found with disfigured face. The last victim was an electrician, Salvatore Manno, with no criminal record, found dead near the Palermo ring road. A massacre that induced the then Minister of the Interior Virginio Rognoni to send the deputy police chief.
