TRAPANI – A revolvera Smith&Wesson .38 caliber special, was discovered inside a hideout in Matteo Messina Denaro’s refuge in Campobello di Mazara.
The weapon was hidden behind a panel under the kitchen oven.
The images of the gun and the hiding place were shown for the first time by colleagues of Tgr Rai Sicily during a service.
What was in Matteo Messina Denaro’s hideout
Investigators located the hideout a few days after the boss’ arrest, which occurred on January 16 last year. Next to the revolver, there was a leather pouch containing 20 cartridgesand on the left a document holder with some notes closed with a yellow rubber band. Next to it there was also a transparent envelope containing envelopesas described by the police.
Everything was seized And cataloguedincluding the photo of revolver found loadedwith 5 cartridges in the drum. The weapon, analyzed by the RIS experts, was in perfect condition. Messina Denaro himself admitted during an interrogation on February 13 in L’Aquila prison that he had modified it.
The words of the boss
“You can’t trace anything back“, he said in response to the questions of prosecutor of Palermo Maurizio De Lucia and deputy Paolo Guidolying and adding: “The gun was brought to me from Belgium twenty years ago“.
