As investigations that led to the discovery of a second hideout of Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro in Campobello di Mazara keep going on, controversy grows over the latest choices of the Meloni government, including wiretapping dossier and privacy of health data. On Facebook, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni responded to the many criticisms by recalling Filippo Salvi, a Carabinieri marshal who died at the age of 36 in 2007 during an investigation precisely to get at Messina Denaro and to whom colleagues dedicated the boss's arrest. Another controversy concerns the privacy of the boss's health records, which were widely circulated and indicated that Messina Denaro suffered from colon cancer. There are many documents recovered from his hideouts, and it was his health condition that framed him. The media attention given to Messina Denaro's health condition has thus turned the spotlight on the protection of health data, not in reference to the investigators' possibility of investigation but in relation to the fact that such information has become public knowledge. Finally, the hot issue of wiretapping remains while on the one hand the Palermo prosecutor's office, in the figure of Chief Prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia, had highlighted how crucial the intercepted conversations were after Messina Denaro's arrest, on the other hand Justice Minister Carlo Nordio reiterated the programmatic importance of the issue of their abuse. The minister, however, clarified that he "will not touch wiretaps on mafia and terrorism".
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