Mafia, new war between clans foiled: nine arrested between Catania and Agrigento

CATANIA – On the delegation of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Catania, over one hundred carabinieri carried out, in the Province of Catania and in that of Agrigento, nine arrests of crime suspects, some of which were intended for people also linked by family ties to exponents of top of the “Santapaola-Ercolano” family.

As part of the operation called "Leonidi", the crimes of mafia-type association, detention for the purpose of dealing in narcotic substances, illegal possession and carrying of a firearm are contested , with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act to facilitate the activity of the mafia association to which they belong.

A murder against Pietro Gagliano (indicated in the conversations of the suspects as belonging to the opposing “Cappello – Bonaccorsi” clan) by some prominent figures of the “Santapaola-Ercolano” mafia association was foiled. A crime that would have further sparked a war between clans.