Primo piano ANSA - ANSA.it: L'Oreshnik, il missile ipersonico dello zar che può colpire l'Europa Viaggia alla velocità di 3 Km al secondo e può portare più testate nucleari I saw Fabrizio Corona crying in prison, at Opera. He wanted to be a flashy guy with the Albanians but he took a lot of beatings”: the account of Giampaolo Manca I saw Fabrizio Corona crying at Opera. It’s one of the most unexpected passages in Giampaolo Manca’s account, the former man of the Mala del Brenta known as “the Doge,” who, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, recounts years of prison, crime, and redemption. Manca, now 72 years old, spent decades between hiding, arrests, and detention, until collaboration with justice and a path that he now recounts also in a documentary film dedicated to his life. In the interview with Corriere, he talks primarily about the Opera prison, where he would have come into contact with mafia bosses, terrorists, and famous people. Among these was Fabrizio Corona. “He wanted to be a flashy character with the Albanians but he took a lot of beatings,” Manca tells Corriere, saying he saw him crying after the attack. Corona spent several periods in the Opera prison in the years following the convictions related to Vallettopoli and violations of alternative detention measures. During the interview, Manca also brings up Renato Vallanzasca and a supposed plan, never realized, to kidnap Marco Van Basten: an episode already promoted in recent hours also for the clash between crime and Milanese football myth. The article “I saw Fabrizio Corona crying in prison, at Opera. He wanted to be a flashy character with the Albanians but he took a lot of beatings”: the account of Giampaolo Manca comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano. #FabrizioCorona #Albanians #GiampaoloManca #GiampaoloManca’s #Corriere #Manca #Corona #Vallettopoli #RenatoVallanzasca #MarcoVanBasten #Milanese #GiampaoloManca #IlFattoQuotidiano https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/05/24/ho-visto-fabrizio-corona-piangere-in-carcere-a-opera-voleva-fare-il-guappo-con-gli-albanesi-ma-prese-un-sacco-di-botte-il-racconto-di-giampaolo-manca/8397236/