
A neat house, paintings on the wall, two teddy bears, a brown sofa, a room used as a gym. The apartment where mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro spent the last months on the run could be anyone's home.
In the living room there is a TV, books placed on a shelf, paintings on the walls with reproductions of famous paintings, such as Van Gogh's Sunflower and photos of the protagonists of the movie The Godfather and Joker. In the room adapted as a gym, there is also an ironing board, dozens of expensive shoes arranged on a shoe rack. In short, an apartment like many others.
The video with the images of the hideout was shot by the "Carabinieri del Ros", who on January 16 arrested the mafia boss and returned to his hideout in Campobello di Mazara.
Matteo Messina Denaro had used the personal data of various supporters over the years while on the run.
Investigators suspect that, in the hideout of vicolo San Vito, in Campobello di Mazara, forged identity documents with the names and data of real people were found among the mafia boss's papers.
It is not yet known whether the documents were forged by the mafia boss himself or someone provided him with pre-filled ones and he only attached his photo.