Massimo Giletti returns to speak about Matteo Messina Denaro in «Non è l’Arena». About three months after the arrest of the head of the La Maddalena clinic in Palermo, the journalists from Non è L’Arena went to Campobello di Mazara, where Messina Denaro lived. Moreover, Messina Denaro seems to have moved freely within the city during the last period of his inactivity. The Ros’s investigation into the flankers did in fact lead to the arrest of several people who had been covering for him in the country, including Giovanni Luppino, who ended up handcuffed with the mafia boss in mid-January. But the residents of Campobello, as seen in the La7 broadcast video, do not seem to appreciate the questions from Giletti’s correspondent, who returned to these places to ask residents if they had ever noticed that the boss was accurate hid there.
The presenter then dwells on a witness’s story that a villa in Palermo hosted parties attended by politicians, businessmen, Palermo’s elite, and even occasionally Matteo Messina Denaro. Giletti went to the area, but according to the information he gathered, the fact that Matteo Messina Denaro was at the party “is not reliable”.
Finally, Massimo Giletti speaks to the mayor of Campobello Giuseppe Castiglione: «Your community has been dissolved twice because of mafia infiltration. Messina Denaro had his fief in Campobello, he felt protected». He then brings him live news about one of his council members, who appears to have a complaint with the prosecutor: “Very strange that it turns out for me, not for you…”.
Before the broadcast, Giletti spoke about his life under guard during an interview with L’Attimo Fuggente of Radio Giornale, in which he answered questions from Luca Telese and Giuliano Guida. Situation in which he finds himself because he “touched the absurdity of a Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede of the Conte government, who decided to leave his home and send the mafia bosses home because of Covid. If you now If you want to liberate prisons, send home whoever stole four chickens, or from a supermarket, who has a criminal record for drug dealing or some other small matter, but they certainly won’t release number one, the important ones, the ones with the Camorra, the ‘Ndrangheta, the mafia ‘connected’.
And again: «I never hesitated to go further, even when I was with Rai. In fact, I remember that Caltanissetta prosecutor Lari surprised me. When I was forced to leave Rai, he issued a statement saying: “I believe Massimo Giletti was removed from Rai because he added four million viewers at two in the afternoon, the most important day of the week, Sunday brought to listen to mafia problems”! I didn’t believe it then, maybe today, yes. I had looked into many things – adds Giletti – and maybe someone forgot that alone on a Saturday night on Rai Uno I made a special edition on the death of Don Puglisi, in which I told the penitent who killed Don Puglisi brought to Brancaccio. That evening I was surrounded by a flood of men with guns on the rooftops. I can’t forget that night.”