"I have nothing left, you have already taken everything away from me." These are the words addressed to the judges by Matteo Messina Denaro during the interrogation of guarantee that was held on February 16 by videoconference from the prison of L'Aquila with the investigating judge of Palermo Alfredo Montalto and the prosecutors Giovanni Antoci and Gianluca De Leo but the acts were filed today.

Matteo Messina Denaro says: "I was a farmer, I worked in the countryside. I am from Castelvetrano, but I no longer have a residence for a long time because the Municipality canceled me many years ago. I am now stateless... I am not part of any association. What I know about Cosa Nostra I know from the newspapers."

"Do you have nicknames?" asks the investigating judge Alfredo Montalto. And he said, "Never had. The various journalists attacked me as a fugitive, but I had no nicknames in my family". When asked about economic conditions, he replies: "I don't lack anything. I also had assets, you took them all away from me and if I have something, I don't say it. That would be stupid. Of course I have otherwise, how could I live until now?"

In short, a Matteo Messina Denaro from which no subjection to the magistrates transpires in words. Self-confident, he denies any belonging to Cosa Nostra. He feels stateless and it is the fault of the Municipality of Castelvetrano to have canceled him, to have forced him into hiding. It traces, in his answers, a bit one of the characters of Pennac, one of the authors most loved by the boss.

One of the many criminal proceedings that see him involved, this time on charges of aggravated extortion. According to the magistrates, he heavily threatened the daughter of a figurehead to get back a land that the Messina Denaro family had fictitiously registered to her father.

But he strongly denies having threatened Giuseppina Passanante and claims that he has only claimed a right. The boss does not admit anything. "Everyone responds with their dignity to what they do" and specifies: "Listen, this land was bought by my father in 1983. My father was a friend of Mr. Passanante's father, who is also dead today, and he asked Alfonso Passanante, whom I also knew, if he could do the favor of naming this property, and the Passanante said yes. He headed the asset, that is, the deed was done and he conducted the operations in the countryside and had to deal with me for the accounts we had to do. Suddenly everything that happens happens, and that is that time passes, years pass, we get to the 90s, my father is a fugitive, the Passanante is in prison. I am also a fugitive."

"And suddenly I know, by side roads, not through Mrs. Passanante, nor through the father who was still alive even if in prison - continues the boss - that all their assets have been mortgaged by some banks, for events that do not interest me and I do not even know, so this land was also mortgaged, But I didn't say anything and I didn't do anything, because he was in prison, so what was I supposed to say? That's how it went. Of course Mrs. Passanante, in all these years of my absence, always kept all the profit of this land, and no one ever asked her anything".

And Matteo Messina Denaro also explains why he decided to write to the woman to get the land back. "Suddenly, in the last few years, I learn that she was selling the land. Incidentally, they had the deal concluded under price, because what did she want to do, take this money from this land, that is, she stole it, and pay the mortgage. And he would pay for everything with my possessions. At a certain point, these are not honest speeches for me, because people act as they want, but that's okay, everyone then responds with their own dignity of the things they do, for better or for worse. So what did I do, I contacted her, with a letter, and I signed it, I did not say pseudonyms, signed with Matteo Messina Denaro, because I believed I was in the reason of the facts".

The interrogation, however, in many parts is covered by omissis especially in the part that touches the relations of the godfather with the Corleone bosses. A part is also dedicated to the story of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the son of the repentant kidnapped and dissolved in acid after more than 700 days of imprisonment. The mafia boss would have denied his involvement in the story and stating that he had never met the collaborator of justice Giovanni Brusca, nicknamed "u verru" (the pig) arrested on January 12, 1996 and certainly one of the reference killers of the Corleonesi. He became a collaborator of justice in 2000 and has always been guilty of the death of little Di Matteo.