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'Ndrangheta, fugitive Gaetano Emanuele has turned himself in
The man was the recipient of a prison order for the “Habanero” investigation by the Catanzaro DDA
Published: 01/08/2025 – 17:19
VIBO VALENTIA Gaetano Emanuele has decided to turn himself in. After being on the run for 6 and a half months (since June 21, 2024), the man, born in 1975, considered the “regent” of the gang by virtue of his role as lieutenant in the absence of his brother Bruno, the real boss of the 'ndrangheta gang of the same name, went to the Carabinieri of the Soriano Station, in the Vibo Valentia area.
Gaetano Emanuele, in fact, had received an order of imprisonment signed by the investigating judge of the Court of Vibo Valentia, following the “Habanero” blitz of the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia District. However, at the time of the notification of the arrest, Emanuele was not there, causing him to disappear for exactly six months.
The precautionary custody measure against Gaetano Emanuele had been cancelled following a long tug-of-war between the prosecution, the defense and the judges .
The investigation
Gaetano Emanuele – assisted by lawyers Giuseppe Di Renzo and Alessandro Diddi – is being investigated for the murders of Francesco Gallace, Giovanni Gallace and Stefano Barillaro and for the attempted murder of Ilario Antonio Chiera, crimes committed on 25 October 2003, using 12-gauge shotguns fired at the car and then, when it stopped, the perpetrators approached and shot head-on. A dynamic reconstructed through the investigations carried out immediately and from the statements made by Ilario Antonio Chiera, who survived the ambush and called for help and described one of the perpetrators of the crime, while over time numerous collaborators of justice have made statements : Francesco Loielo, Rocco Oppedisano, Michele Ganino, Enzo Taverniti, Bartolomeo Arena, Luciano Oliva and Antonio Forastefano. The latter, in particular, had declared that he had learned from Angelo Maiolo - while he was a fugitive - that Gaetano Emanuele had also participated in the murder as a material executor.
"Not very credible" repentants
During the last hearing, the judges of the Court of Catanzaro fully accepted the thesis of the Supreme Court according to which, differently from what was held by the Review Judge, it cannot be considered that the statements made by Forastefano «are comparable to direct ones because they are constituted by self-accusatory confidences received directly from the material author of the fact». This is correct information «only in relation to what was narrated by Angelo Maiolo regarding his own responsibility, which he thus “confessed” to the collaborator, but it cannot be extended to the position of Gaetano Emanuele». The considerations of the other repentant, Oppedisano, were also taken into consideration. According to the Supreme Court, «the collaborator with regard to the intrinsic credibility of which the motivation of the contested provision is non-existent, reported a conversation that took place, moreover in generic terms, about a year before the murders were committed ». (g.curcio@corrierecal.it)
