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'Ndrangheta, “Aspromonte emiliano”: sentences of over 350 years requested
The request to the preliminary investigations judge by the Bologna DDA prosecutor Ceroni against 35 defendants from the Reggio and Crotone clans
Published: 09/09/2024 – 20:36
BOLOGNA Sentences totaling over 350 years in prison, including one to 20 years for Giuseppe Romeo, believed to be the head of the organization . This is what the prosecutor of the Bologna DDA Roberto Ceroni asked the preliminary investigations judge Andrea Salvatore Romito for the 35 defendants who chose the abbreviated procedure in the trial resulting from the “Aspromonte emiliano” operation, which in May 2023 had allowed the dismantling of an organization dedicated to the trafficking of cocaine, hashish and marijuana . This organization included Italians belonging to or close to the Reggio Calabria and Crotone 'ndrangheta and active in Emilia-Romagna, who had direct contact with the Colombian drug cartels, and also Chinese criminals. The defendants are charged, to varying degrees, with the crimes of drug trafficking, money laundering, fictitious registration of assets, kidnapping for the purpose of extortion and weapons, with mafia aggravation , and according to the prosecution the undisputed leader of the criminal organization was Giuseppe Romeo of the 'ndrina of San Luca, a former super fugitive arrested in Spain in 2021 and considered a subject of great criminal importance. The trial will continue with the conclusions of the defense, with the sentence expected to arrive next month.
