Maybe some of you watched the disturbing footage of the shooting in 2013, I think its on youtube.
Revenge, this would be the motive of the murder of Gregorio Mezzatesta, 54, murdered yesterday morning in the center of Catanzaro. Employee of Railways of Calabria, and married with two children, clean record, no suspects bond, a quiet life divided between the house in Soveria Mannelli and work in the capital. A life without shadows, say the investigators. But there is a point of no return in Mezzatesta life. It is January 19, 2013. In Decollatura, a small town on the hills of Lamezia Terme, the security cameras of the Bar Reventino frame four men seated at a table. An increasingly heated discussion until one of these gets up holding a pistol and began to fire. A chilling scene with the desperate and useless attempt of one victim to save his life sheltering behind a pillow.
Victims are Francesco Iannazzo, 29, and Giovanni Vescio, 36 years. The authors of the double murder are Dominic and his son Giovanni Mezzatesta respectively brother and nephew of Gregorio.
Maybe some of you watched the disturbing footage of the shooting in 2013, I think its on youtube.
Revenge, this would be the motive of the murder of Gregorio Mezzatesta, 54, murdered yesterday morning in the center of Catanzaro. Employee of Railways of Calabria, and married with two children, clean record, no suspects bond, a quiet life divided between the house in Soveria Mannelli and work in the capital. A life without shadows, say the investigators. But there is a point of no return in Mezzatesta life. It is January 19, 2013. In Decollatura, a small town on the hills of Lamezia Terme, the security cameras of the Bar Reventino frame four men seated at a table. An increasingly heated discussion until one of these gets up holding a pistol and began to fire. A chilling scene with the desperate and useless attempt of one victim to save his life sheltering behind a pillow.
Victims are Francesco Iannazzo, 29, and Giovanni Vescio, 36 years. The authors of the double murder are Dominic and his son Giovanni Mezzatesta respectively brother and nephew of Gregorio.
I watched it years ago,brutal video. They are eliminating innocent family members,what a scum.
LAMEZIA TERME- Local police have arrested nine people following an anti-mafia operation dubbed “red string” against the Giampà wing of the ‘Ndràngheta Mafia clan, in the province of Calabria, a hotbed for organised criminal activities.
Those detained are accused of breaking the law under the stamp of the Mafia and of several cases of extortion at the expense of shop owners and entrepreneurs in Lamezia Terme.
Additionally, the nine people arrested are suspected of carrying out a series of attacks designed to intimidate local business owners, including throwing flaming bottles into the shops and damaging them with the use of explosive devices.
Initial investigations have revealed that some of the suspects detained following the operation had recently obtained their freedom after being arrested in similar police stings called “Medusa” and “Perseo.”
It is believed that the moment these individual were permitted alternative protective measures than official detention, they immediately returned to the foray of organised crime with the intentions of imposing again their influence on the criminal underworld of Lamezia Terme.
The operation was carried out by State Police in collaboration with the Catanzaro rapid response team and the Police Comissioner of Lamezia Terme.
Police arrested in Milan Francesco Piccolo, 57, considered the right arm of the Calabrian clan of Flachi and searched since the beginning of June to serve a residue of 4-year and two months sentence in the investigation 'cornerstone' in 2011. Piccolo, who has previous convictions for theft, damage and dealing, has to answer for criminal association with the mafia aimed at extortion, drug dealing and possession of weapons. The operation led to the arrest of 35 people.
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Eleven arrests were carried out by the police against people considered affiliated to the 'Ndrangheta. Conspiracy mafia, attempted murder, usury, extortion, robbery, damage, fire, illegal possession of arms and ammunition offenses alleged against them in various ways. The operation was conducted by the military of the station Chivasso (Turin) in the provinces of Torino, Varese, Reggio Calabria, Cosenza and Vercelli, in conjunction with relevant departments. Seized real estate, companies and businesses, life insurance policies, bank accounts, large displacement cars, safes, jewels and luxury watches, and cash.
The Court of Reggio Calabria Assize of Appeals upheld a life sentence imposed at first instance to the alleged boss Tommaso Costa for the murder of the young entrepreneur Gianluca Congiusta, which occurred on the evening of May 24, 2005 in Siderno, while he was driving his car.
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Gratteri: "The health of the Ndrangheta in the North is good" 07/02/2017 admin Ndrangheta 0
Nicola Gratteri ROME - The health of the Ndrangheta in the North is "good", a presence that "manifests itself in different ways." "Before shooting more," "Today families are dedicated more to business, make investments. They buy and sell hotels, restaurants, shops. They devote themselves to the laundering of drug profits". It is the analysis of Nicola Gratteri, the public prosecutor in Catanzaro, interviewed by the Press. "They are the holders of the wholesale. The detail they leave it to Nigerians and others. The Ndrangheta has a near monopoly. For decades selling cocaine to Cosa Nostra and the Camorra. Always the big importers of cocaine are the Ndrangheta area Ionian and Tyrrhenian coast, "he explains.
"In the construction industry the ndrine have always been a big part offering cheap labor, ensuring the disposal of waste, supplying cement weakened. The Northern entrepreneurs who have adapted, now they can not say they did not know or did not understood. i explain: for years if your suppliers offer you a 100 material and the newcomers you give it to 60, there is something wrong. it's obvious. " "New partners typically enter into partnership with minority stakes, then end up control, the company" to take in hand. The young talent? "The Ndrangheta children are educated, graduates, are lawyers, doctors, engineers. They are in government. But always respond to the same rules. At that mafia method that can not be denied."
Help came from psychologist Enrico Interdonato, 33, who volunteers with a project that tries to free youngsters from the notoriously ruthless 'Ndrangheta in Calabria by placing them in care in secret locations across Italy.
The programme, called "Liberi di Scegliere" (Free to Choose), aims to show teens they can forge a life outside the criminal underworld without feeling they have betrayed those they love.
"They're raised as princes destined to inherit a dynasty, the embodiment of their town's criminal history," Interdonato told AFP.
"Their fathers are almost always in prison or dead, their cousins or brothers are in jail. In the closed societies of small Calabrian towns everyone knows them and they feel it's their duty to live up to the family name," he said.
"At risk" minors are removed from their families by the juvenile court in the southern city of Reggio Calabria and given a chance to finish their education. Those who want it also get help finding work once they turn 18.
The first challenge Interdonato faces is convincing the youngsters not to see it as a punishment but an opportunity to find themselves in a place where their family names - renowned at home - hold no power over them.
They also have to be convinced of the ills of a lifestyle which seduces many in a region with crippling unemployment.
"Being heir to a mafia clan means obligations but it also means privileges, having access to significant economic and social power," he said.
'Traumatized'
They may wear designer clothes and command the fear or respect of locals, but "they are still the same as other teenagers in one respect: the changes in their bodies and brains are still underway".
Though each case is different, all at first are "emotionally rigid" and traumatized after having seen relatives killed or taken away in the middle of the night in police raids.
Once a relationship is forged, Interdonato takes them along to meetings organized by the Addiopizzo association, a grassroots movement of victims of mafia extortion who have joined forces to denounce their tormentors.
"Just as police infiltrate the mafia, we infiltrate the anti-mafia!" he quips.
"These are people traditionally considered the enemy of the mafia, so the kids get a chance to see the human face of their 'enemy', and see what their world does to them."
The encounters can be "very emotional", he says. "In one case a victim living under police escort ended up befriending one of the lads and offered him a job."
Interdonato, who sees the minors once or twice a week, says the aim is not to get the youngsters to turn on their families - though the mothers of some children sent away do just that, becoming police informants.
"No one wants the blood ties to be cut or for youngsters to hate their fathers. We say: 'You must love your father, but you must choose your future for yourself.'"
"It wasn't very good parsley to begin with, and then the cat went and peed on it." -Sicilian proverb
Fugitive Giovanni Priolo, 61, was arrested in Amantea, Cosenza. Priolo is linked by family ties with members of the powerful clan Piromalli of Gioia Tauro. An arrest warrant was issued for the attempted murder of Giuseppe Brandimarte on the morning of 14 December 2011.
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Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta’ boss ‘involved in 1990s mafia bombing campaign’ held JULY 26TH, 2017 CANINDIA NEW WIRE SERVICE 0 COMMENTS8
Rome, July 26 (IANS/AKI) Italian police on Wednesday arrested an alleged Calabrian mafia ‘Ndrangheta boss accused of ordering bomb attacks on police in Reggio Calabria in 1994 that killed one officer and gravely injured two others.
Police said the arrest of Rocco Santo Filippone shed new light on the mafia’s deadly bombing campaign against the state during the 1990s.
Filipponi, the alleged head of the ‘Ndrangheta’s Filippone clan was held together with jailed Sicilian mafia boss Giuseppe Graviano, who received an arrest warrant in prison. Both men are accused of ordering the three bomb attacks in Reggio Calabria on January 18, February 1 and December 1, 1994.
Filipponi’s arrest, carried out on the orders of anti-mafia prosecutors amid a “vast” police operation involving raids across the country on Wednesday, showed the ‘Ndrangheta was involved in the series of bombings that shook Italy in the early-to- mid-1990s, police said.
Previously, Italian authorities had pinned sole responsibility for the attacks on the Sicilian mafia, claiming it was an attempt to stop politicians meddling in its business affairs.
The bombing campaign began with the high-profile 1992 murders of Sicilian anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, and with them eight police officers. Ten people were killed the following year in mainland bombings in Rome, Milan and Florence.
A controversial trial is currently ongoing over an alleged pact between the Italian state and the Sicilian mafia under which the crime syndicate agreed to halt the deadly 1990s bombing campaign in exchange for cushier prison conditions for jailed mafia members.
The former turncoat Pasquale Gagliostro, 53, has been killed in an ambush in a crowded Palmi countryside yesterday. Gagliostro aka "il pistolero" was affiliated with the Parrello clan.
About their encrypted communications. Which allows the 'ndranghetists to handle drug trafficking in continuous contact with South American cartels. Whoever is involved in the drug business receives a "protected" cell phone of seven thousand euros.
Big 'Ndrangheta operation in Lombardy (2) Seregno mayor put under house arrest
(ANSA) - Milan, September 26 - An operation linked to a probe into alleged infiltration of Lombardy's political and business world by the 'Ndrangheta mafia saw 21 people arrested on Tuesday. Of those, 21 suspects were taken to jail and three were put under house arrest, including Edoardo Mazza, the mayor of the province of Monza town of Seregno and a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party. He is accused of facilitating the business of an entrepreneur linked to the mafia who, in turn, alleged got him votes. The probe is also into alleged extortion and drug trafficking.
The pentito Domenico Cricelli has been arrested for the failed murder last year of the head of the Civilian Motoring of Chieti in Abruzzo. He organized the hit while in the protection program. Cricelli testified against the Mancuso clan, he's from Albert Anastasia's birthplace Tropea.
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At the request of the chief prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Federico Cafiero De Raho they arrested entrepreneurs in the waste and water business in Gioia Tauro but also the boss Gioacchino Piromalli, known as the "lawyer." The boss of Siderno Giuseppe Commisso, who was already detained, was also investigated.
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 5, 2017 11:19 AMOCT 5, 2017 - 11:19 Nine men with links to Italian mafia group ’Ndrangheta are being extradited to Italy, the justice ministry has told Swiss Public Television, SRF. In recent years, Switzerland has made a number of arrests in cooperation with the Italian authorities. Many of the men, suspected for their membership in ’Ndrangheta, have since been in jail awaiting extradition. Based in Calabria, southern Italy, ’Ndrangheta is one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world. Key to the investigation was hidden camera footage of a meeting in Frauenfeld, canton Thurgau, in northeastern Switzerland. The video shows 15 men discussing drugs and arms trafficking. It seems that the Thurgau off-shoot of the mafia has been in operation for 40 years.
Secret film of mafia meeting in Frauenfeld
For security reasons, the justice ministry has declined to say when, exactly, the men will be turned over to the Italian authorities. However, the turnover is expected to take place quite soon. Previous extraditions Between February and August, three other suspected mafia members were handed over to the Italian authorities. In March 2016, 15 suspected Ndrangheta mafia members were arrested in a massive sting operation carried out in March 2016 in the cantons of Thurgau, Valais and Zurich. The two from Valais have already been sentenced to six- and nine-year prison terms in Italy. swissinfo.ch/sm
24 people affiliated with the 'ndrangheta were sentenced in Milan to a total of 210 years in prison for cocaine trafficking among other charges. Among those convicted in the drug-related proceeding, there are members of several families in Calabria such as Morabito, Bruzzaniti and Crea. In Milan they supplied a kind of pure cocaine called 'Z1' imported from Holland and Brazil.
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A new hard blow by the Rome prosecutor on organized crime, and in particular the 'ndrangheta. This morning 19 people were arrested on charges of international drug trafficking. The criminal organization devoted to cocaine and hashish had a base in Rome, but ramifications abroad. The DDA in Rome carried out investigations through telephone interceptions of an aggressive criminal group responsible for multiple imports in part destined for the Ndrangheta, and in particular, to the Alvaro clan of Sinopoli. 500kg drugs was also seized.
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