Gerlandino Messina

Gerlandino Messina (born July 22, 1972 in Porto Empedocle ) is a clan chief of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily in the Free Municipal Consortium of Agrigento .

Life

The Italian Ministry of the Interior had him on the list of wanted mafia members since 1999 until his arrest on October 23, 2010 in Favara in the province of Agrigento.

He is the son of Giuseppe Messina , who was the clan chief of the Cosa Nostra of Porto Empedocle. Giuseppe Messina was murdered on July 8, 1986 by the Grassonelli clan, which belong to the Stidda . The Stidda is a criminal organization in Sicily that is fighting the Cosa Nostra. In revenge for the murder of Giuseppe Messina, six members of the Grassonelli clan were killed on September 21, 1986 in the so-called Porto Empedocle massacre .

Gerlandino Messina is considered to be one of the heads of the Cosa Nostra in the province of Agrigento and, since 2003, has been the deputy of Giuseppe Falsone , who was arrested in June 2010. Since this arrest, Gerlandino Messina took over his leadership role. With the local boss of the Cosa Nostra in Porto Empedocle Luigi Putrone , he fought for years for supremacy.

Gerlandino Messina was arrested on October 23, 2010 at his house in Favara by a special unit of the Carabinieri , the Gruppo di Intervento Speciale (GIS). He was wanted for his ties to the Cosa Nostra and several murders, including the April 1992 murder of police officer Giuliano Guazzelli .

Web links

• Di Gati accusa Messina , Teleacras Agrigento, November 2nd 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of the most wanted criminals by the Italian Ministry of the Interior ( memento of the original from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (ital.) 
2. ↑ Altro arresto nell 'ambito dell'operazione antimafia Marna . Teleacras on October 30, 2007
3. ↑ Giuseppe Falsone's arrest on Spiegel Online
4. ↑ Relazione del Ministro dell'Interno al Parlamento sull'attività svolta e sui risultati conseguiti dalla Direzione Investigativa Antimafia . ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) 2007 (ital.) 
5. ^ Arrest of Gerlandino Messina on bild.de.
6. ^ Mafia, preso Gerlandino Messina . In: La Repubblica , October 23, 2010