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'Ndrangheta, the Casamonica affair and the “strained” relationship with Accorinti. The repentant: «Peppone wanted to kill me»
In the bunker courtroom the story of the repentant class of '64 from Ionadi. "They use people and then kill them, they always do this"
Published: 08/17/2024 – 17:31
LAMEZIA TERME «I have been collaborating since January, February 2005. I chose to do it because there were problems that weighed on my family and on me. I was scared, the word was that they wanted to kill me. I worked for some families, with the Accorinti of Zungri and with Giuseppe and Ambrogio Accorinti. At the time there was also Raffaele Fiamingo, who was then murdered too, with many people, but the one who wanted to hurt me was Giuseppe Accorinti, the Accorinti family in short».
Speaking before the judges of the collegiate court of Vibo Valentia is Angiolino Servello , born in 1964 in Ionadi, a collaborator of justice called to testify in the “Maestrale-Carthago” trial that arose from the investigation of the Catanzaro District Anti-Mafia Commission. In the bunker courtroom, questioned by the PM of the anti-mafia pool Annamaria Frustaci, he began to illustrate his path of collaboration with justice, but also the details related to some of the defendants in the trial.
The choice
"I came into contact with the Accorinti family, I've known them for many years, for about forty years, but I came into contact for drug deals in 1999" Servello explained again "we met with Ambrogio Accorinti in the prison of Vibo Valentia. Once we got out, again in 1999, we resumed the agreements, we met outside and we started working with drugs". Then the meeting with his brother, Peppone Accorinti. "I went to visit him with Ambrogio because Peppone was a fugitive, I saw a campaign, I can't tell you exactly where, because I don't remember it exactly, and since we already knew each other, at the time he was a friend of my brother. We also started drug deals with him, once he was free, me, him and Raffaele Fiamingo". And again: «The three of us met in Mesiano di Filandari, with a fourth accomplice, who was from San Giovanni, Rocco Cristello, who was in Milan, and from there the drug trafficking, cocaine, started, which we did with Peppone Accorinti and Raffaele Fiamingo, where I was mainly involved in sales».
Drug-related business
During his deposition, the collaborator of justice illustrated the details related to drug trafficking. "They took care of giving me the cocaine and I took care of selling it, I had a big business in Rome, and so it was, we continued to do this work". Then the murder of Fiamingo caused the relationship to deteriorate. "We lost ourselves a bit with Accorinti, because he was down, seeing a bit of the situation of his friend who had been killed. I worked anyway, I always went in his name because I didn't know this Cristello, I met him through them. I went there, I told them 'give me ten kilos of cocaine, give me twenty kilos of cocaine', whatever I needed, I took it and went away, and so on".
The Casamonica “question”
And again: "We had a connection with the Casamonica family in Rome, where I sold cocaine even in large quantities, at the level of ten, fifteen kilos, and there was a pending debt to be recovered in money. They dragged it out, dragged it out, dragged it out, but Peppone said: 'No, let's all go, let's get the money, let's go, let's kill them, let's do it', and there was a bit of a squabble between me, between him, between this Casamonica and so on" the informer explained again. This episode, according to the informer Servello, had strained relations with Peppone Accorinti. "I remember that after a while they arrested us all and we found ourselves in the prison in Vibo and, during the conversations, I saw him a bit cold, they spoke badly of me almost giving reason to the Casamonicas, like that he had paid for the drugs, but it was not true at all". Then, according to the repentant's story, "my wife who came to talk to me said that they wanted to kill me in prison, there were already rumors going around, and so I decided to collaborate with justice." Then Servello's outburst: "They do these things, they work like this, they use people and kill them. I have been collaborating for twenty years and I collaborate in front of the whole world, like this, openly, but they are worse than the collaborators, they are scoundrels who use people and kill them." ( g.curcio@corrierecal.it )
