Maxi joint anti-mafia operation of Police and Carabinieri in Bari, in the San Pio district.
Eight people ended up in handcuffs, all affiliated with the Strisciuglio clan and accused, for various reasons, of attempted aggravated murder, attempted kidnapping, illegal carrying of weapons, aggravated injuries, receiving stolen goods and induction not to make or to make false statements to the Authority Judicial. For all crimes there is also the aggravating mafia.
A long investigation by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which began on the evening of June 26, 2019, when some of the arrested carried out a raid on the home of a convict, who later became a collaborator of justice. In front of his partner and his son, they dragged him out of the house, beat him and tried to kidnap him.
Kidnapping failed only thanks to the intervention of the victim's family. Before leaving, the criminals did not hesitate to punch the six-year-old boy in the face and a kick to the woman, who was eight months pregnant.
A little more than an hour after a new blitz in the same area, this time a real armed commando moved, which exploded 23 gunshots at eye level towards the house where they presumed their refuge had taken refuge. target. Nobody died because the people in that house managed to lie down on the ground just in time.
Subsequent investigations - which also made use of collaborators of justice - made it possible to ascertain the reasons for the blitz: the target of the ambush was guilty of selling drugs in the Palese district without the prior authorization of the Strisciuglio clan.
Then there was also strong pressure, with intimidation and death threats, on the victim's family, to induce her not to collaborate with the justice system.
It is not the first operation against the Strisciuglio clan, other investigations have already revealed a ruthless association that has few qualms.
Eight people arrested: De Giglio Andrea of 36, Piscopo Tommaso of 22, Sgaramella Giovanni of 36, Caizzi Giuseppe of 53, Lorenzani Massimo of 39, Franco Giuseppe of 35, Sebastiano Emanuele of 38, Carchedi Saverio of 23. A ninth person initially escaped capture, she was later arrested: it is Iusco Michele Paolo, 34 years old.
(Unioneonline / L)