The magistrate of Palermo sentenced Laura Bonafeden to 11 years and 4 months in prison for mafia organization. The teacher from Campobello di Mazara, daughter of the town's historic godfather, was romantically linked to boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
The teacher was initially accused of the offense of aiding and abetting, and then it was changed to that of a mafia organization.
According to the prosecutor's office, the woman had been living with her daughter for years, with the then wanted mobster, guaranteeing his communications and covering his absence. The trial was held abbreviated.
We recall that the mafia boss of Cosa Nostra Matteo Messina Denaro passed away on September 25 of last year. He was arrested in January 2023 after 30 years on the run.
The 62-year-old mafia boss suffered from a severe form of colon cancer, which was diagnosed while he was still being sought at the end of 2020. And because of him, the ROS carabinieri and the Palermo prosecutor's office reached the trail of the mafia boss, who managed to escape justice for 30 years. After his capture, Messina Denaro underwent chemotherapy in L'Aquila prison where a kind of infirmary was set up next to his cell.
A team of oncologists and nurses from the hospital of Abruzzo constantly followed the patient, who was in a very serious condition.
In the 9 months of detention, Castelvetrano's godfather underwent two surgical operations related to cancer complications. He never recovered from the latter, so much so that doctors decided not to send him back to prison, but to treat him in a maximum security room at the hospital, treating him with pain therapy and then sedating him.