(ANSA) – PALERMO, JUNE 21 – There are two doctors under investigation for aggravated aiding and abetting as part of the investigation into the network of supporters who helped Matteo Messina Denaro while he was on the run. They are the gastroenterologist and endoscopist from Marsala Francesco Bavetta and the surgeon from the Mazara del Vallo hospital Giacomo Urso. Both professionals treated the then fugitive in the autumn of 2020.
Bavetta is the specialist who on November 5, four years ago, diagnosed the mafia boss with colon cancer through a colonoscopy. The patient, who introduced himself with the name of Andrea Bonafede, had reached him through Giovanni Luppino, an entrepreneur who was later arrested on January 16th together with the boss. The reports compiled by Bavetta and registered to Bonafede were found in the Messina Denaro hideout. The doctor, heard by the prosecutors, admitted having carried out the exam, but claimed to have only learned after the capture that the patient was actually Matteo Messina Denaro. Urso, on the other hand, is the surgeon who operated on the mafia boss for cancer just four days after Bavetta’s diagnosis. He too, when questioned, denied having been aware of the patient’s true identity. (HANDLE). .
