Mafia, the blitz and the clan's organizational chart: the arrested NAMES VIDEO
CATANIA – The Adrano anti-mafia blitz. A massive deployment put in place by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, Police – Flying Squad of the Catania Police Headquarters and the Adrano Police Station. Which led to the order of application of a precautionary measure issued by the Judge for preliminary investigations at the Court of Catania against 21 subjects destined for prison custody.
The charges are mafia-type association (Scalisi clan of Adrano) , extortion, drug trafficking and carrying and illegal possession of firearms. All crimes aggravated by the purpose of facilitating the mafia association to which they belong.
The names of those arrested The following people ended up in handcuffs: Alfio Di Primo, Emanuel Bua, Pietro Castro, Vincenzo Castro, Emanuele Centamore, Francesco Pio Di Giovanni, Antonino Garofalo, Alfio Lo Curlo, Claudio Maccarrone, Pietro Maccarrone, Cristian Concetto Nicolosi, Salvatore Palermo, Vincenzo Restivo, Dario Sangricoli, Giuseppe Santangelo, Salvatore Scafidi, Alfio Scalisi, Andrea Stissi, Marcello Stissi, Massimiliano Vinciguerra.
Mafia, the blitz of Adrano The investigations began in July 2021. An investigative activity that constitutes the natural continuation of previous investigations into the mafia association in question, which resulted in various operations. Illegal Duty of 11.7.2017 , in operation The King of 16.7.2020, in operation Fallow the money of 10.2.2021 .
In 2021, Operation Triade highlighted how, following his release from prison in 2022, the historical (and top-ranking) member of the Scalisi clan, Alfio Di Primo, would immediately place himself at the top of the mafia association. Becoming its regent. Di Primo is the brother-in-law of Giuseppe Scarvaglieri, already sentenced to life imprisonment, the undisputed head of the Scalisi clan, detained under 41 bis since January 2018.
The current organizational chart of the Scalisi clan has been reconstructed, whose internal hierarchy would see, at the level immediately below the regent Alfio Di Primo, the investigated Antonino Garofalo. Who would have carried out a fundamental function of organization and coordination on the other members of the mafia association. Among whom the affiliates Andrea Stissi and Dario Sangricoli would stand out.
The lace and the drugs In addition to the organizational chart of the Scalisi gang, the investigation has allowed us to gain an understanding of the crimes committed by the clan's members, including numerous extortions. All committed in the typical mafia form of "pizzo", systematically to the detriment of Adranite traders and entrepreneurs. Forced to pay monthly sums of money to the mafia organization's tax collectors.
The coffers of the mafia association would have been constantly replenished by the proceeds of a large trafficking of narcotic substances such as cocaine and marijuana. Managed by members of the organization who, in this criminal context, took advantage of a phase of operational weakness of the other mafia organization in Adrano, hit by numerous arrests over the years,
The investigations have confirmed the well-known dangerousness of the members of the Scalisi clan . They would have equipped themselves with firearms in order to guard their territory and protect their criminal business from possible interference by rival mafia groups. In this way, they ensured the military support necessary to sustain the confrontation with other mafia groups.
