Until a few months ago, she defended her uncle, the number one in the mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro. Now his niece, the Sicilian lawyer Lorenza Guttadauro, works in Rome for the Ministry of Education. The authority confirmed that she had secured a position at the agency responsible for education in the Lazio region, in the capital Rome, thanks to a public advertisement.
The case causes a stir. 44-year-old Lorenza Guttadauro is the daughter of Messina Denaro’s sister Rosalia. In recent months she has defended her uncle Messina Denaro, who was arrested in January 2023 after thirty years on the run.
Husband of mafia niece also criminal
Guttadauro’s husband Girolamo Bellomo was sentenced to ten years in prison. According to the indictment, he directly ran the drug trade from Palermo, putting pressure on construction companies and planning extortion schemes to gain control of the area. Guttadauro’s paternal grandfather was the legendary boss of Palermo’s Brancaccio district, Giuseppe Guttadauro. Guttadauro’s father Filippo also had repeated problems with the legal system. The fact that Lorenza Guttadauro works for the Ministry of Education has caused controversy in Rome and could embarrass Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government.
The Italian justice system continues to investigate the group of people who facilitated Messina Denaro’s escape. Just a few days ago, a friend of Denaro was sentenced to eleven years and four months in prison. The teacher had lived with the deceased mafia boss for years and maintained Denaro’s contacts with other mafiosi.
Mafia boss caught on the run after 30 years
Messina Denaro was caught in January 2023 after 30 years on the run as he left a clinic in Palermo where he was being treated for cancer. He died on September 25, 2023, at the age of 62, in a hospital in the city of L’Aquila. Denaro had been convicted for his involvement in dozens of murders, including the 1992 Cosa Nostra bombings that killed anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Even murdered a child and dissolved it in acid
In addition to the murders of Falcone and Borsellino, Messina Denaro was convicted of the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of a mafioso. Giuseppe Di Matteo was kidnapped in 1993 at the age of 12, strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996 to punish his father, who had testified against a leading mafia member. Messina Denaro was also convicted of bombings at art and religious sites in Milan, Florence and Rome, which killed ten people and injured forty others in 1993.
Source: Krone
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