On April 22, the ROS carabinieri released the name of the social account used by Matteo Messina Denaro during his hiding. Within a few days, hundreds of people stopped by to leave a follow. The account has no content and it is difficult for family members to transform it into a memorial profile. Messina Denaro died on September 25, 2023.
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F.averna. Public Instagram account. No posts. 417 profiles followed, especially women. And an essential biography: Francesco Averna 17, Doctor. Cover image: a dog with a bandana tied around its neck. The owner of this account died on September 25, 2023. His name was Matteo Messina Denaro. Here you will find the Fanpage.it special one year after his capture made with Roberto Saviano.
On April 22, Italian newspapers spread the news that Messina Denaro had social media profiles while he was in hiding. The discovery was spread by Carabinieri del Ros who are working on his life. His arrest took place in Palermo on 16 January 2023, after 30 years spent on the list of the most wanted fugitives in the world.
With the same name, Matteo Messina Denaro had also opened a account on Facebook. Here she had only five friends and a biography from which it was easy to understand that the profile was fake. Francesco Averna said he graduated in Medicine from Bocconi University in Milan. There is no Faculty of Medicine at Bocconi.
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Matteo Messina Denaro’s followers
When the profile pictures were released the number of followers was set at 71. The Ros explain that Matteo Messina Denaro used this account mainly for talk via chat with the women he frequented. Five days after the news, today that same account has 1,179 followers.
Of course, the number is low if we think about the metrics on which the market currently travels influencer market. But we’re talking about anyway .108 people who thought it was a good idea to follow the true account of a mafia boss involved in the darkest pages of our history. Not only.
Those follows, preceded by a search on social media, are not even the symptom of a voyeurism of evil. The owner of the account is deceased and it is difficult to imagine that his family will take action to make one commemorative account. Those 1,108 people they stopped by there just to leave a tribute.
