https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...to-tutti-mangiavano-dallo-stesso-piatto/'Ndrangheta, Luigi Mancuso's “pacifist strategy”. The repentant: «Everyone ate from the same plate»
In the courtroom, the story of the former scion of the powerful Limbadi clan. «Diego Mancuso entered the Freemasonry through the main door»
VIBO VALENTIA The turning point after his release. From that moment on, the balance, in one way or another, would have changed definitively . This is what the “boss” would have wanted, the charismatic leader appreciated and respected by all (or almost all), in a twisted geography of criminal families, but with his gaze always directed towards the common goal. It is 2012 and the “Supreme” Luigi Mancuso is released. It will be his concern to implement a strategy thought out – perhaps – for a long time and to restore some order, first within his own family, then outside. No more shooting, no more murders, no more tensions over the division of territories and profits.
The testimony of Emanuele Mancuso
The one who dusted off the details of Luigi Mancuso's "pacifist strategy" was his nephew and collaborator of justice, Emanuele Mancuso, heard in the bunker courtroom before the judges of the Court of Vibo Valentia during the hearing of the "Maestrale-Carthago" trial. "Uncle Luigi Mancuso wanted to unify everything, he wanted peace, he didn't love violence", explains the former scion of the powerful Limbadi clan. "He was a charismatic person, with a word he could take you anywhere. I remember that my family always went to eat at Silvana Mancuso's, Luigi Mancuso had managed to reconcile everything and everyone". Because, the repentant observed further, "if you invite us to a wedding and you sit at the table next to people you have hated for 7 years, then it means that the reconciliation had really taken place". «Two groups had formed that Luigi Mancuso had brought together after his release from prison in 2012» the collaborator of justice explained further « in Tropea there were the La Rosas, the Piscopisanis in Piscopio, the Anellos in Filadelfia but he was on good terms with everyone and sent an emissary to everyone», the repentant further explained.
Ring and Bonavota
In short, everyone should have had their own area, dialogue should have prevailed over everything. «There were differences between the Anello and “Scarpuni” before, as well as with the Bonavota. When Luigi Mancuso left, Giuseppe Rizzo alias “Speedy pizza”, had mediated. He accompanied himself with a Monteleone, I often saw them in Capistrano, he was in Rocco Anello’s faction», Emanuele Mancuso explained. «The Anello clan aligned itself with the new route of the “Supremo”, in general, despite some differences with “Scarpuni” for control of the territory, he had ways that led to clashes with others, very different from those of Luigi Mancuso». It was a way of operating of two different bosses, this is the “vision” of the collaborator. About the Bonavota, active in the territory of Sant'Onofrio and “winners” in the feud with the Cracolici. «Luigi Mancuso had also harmonized with them, as had happened with the Anello. We all ate from the same plate." "I know that the leaders of the Bonavotas were Domenico and Pasquale, even though I personally knew Nicola, the one who had the bar," explained Emanuele Mancuso.
Diego Mancuso and Freemasonry
In his story given to the prosecutor Antonio De Bernardo, Emanuele Mancuso illustrates the “hierarchy” of his family: «Diego Mancuso is my father’s brother, the boss after Peppe “'Mbrogghia”. On a general level, however, he came after Luigi Mancuso and Peppe “'Mbrogghia”. The 7 stood out for being more of a military wing while the 11 were institutionalized, entrepreneurial and Masonic but , over the years, even the 7 had understood that, if they had not joined Freemasonry, they would have done nothing so much so that my uncle Diego Mancuso had brought home Angelo Boccardelli who he had met during a period of detention in Viterbo». Diego Mancuso «had set up a house for him, near Limbadi, then he had given him a place to stay in the village where Diego Mancuso himself was in Santa Maria di Ricadi. Then he graduated studying art, he was very educated and wanted to enter the Masonic lodge and he entered through the main door". ( g.curcio@corrierecal.it )
