Maxi operation against the ultra group of the Sconvolts in Cagliari and in other hinterland centers .
Since dawn, the Police have been carrying out 33 precautionary measures , some in prison, others under house arrest and mandatory signature, against members of the Cagliari organized supporters group for criminal association aimed at committing various crimes against public order. the person and assets , committed during sporting events, and drug dealing .
The measures were taken at the end of the investigations of the Digos of Cagliari, coordinated by the District Anti-terrorism Directorate: numerous episodes committed between the autumn of 2018 and the last football season were examined.
The vast operation, with many searches (there are also three suspects on the loose), was attended by over 200 policemen with the support of a police helicopter, patrols and personnel from the Sardinia Crime Prevention Department and the Scientific Department.
Among the suspects , as emerged from the investigation, there is also the former Cagliari captain Andrea Cossu , currently in the rossoblù management . The investigators contest the competition outside the association against the former footballer. The prosecutor asked for the ban from the office of manager but the judge did not accept it due to lack of needs.
THE INVESTIGATIONS - At the end of the Digos investigations, under the coordination of the manager Antonio Nicolli , five measures of pre-trial detention were carried out in prison , 13 at home , 11 residence obligations and 4 with signature obligation . "This is a small group of the Sconvolts and not all the members of the supporters", clarified Nicolli. "Some organized the checks of the opponents ultrà who arrived in Cagliari to follow their team. They went back to where they were staying and then there were the punitive expeditions".
The Frari operation takes its name from the nickname with which the members of the group called themselves. There are several disputed episodes from 2018 to 2021: brawls and violence during the Cagliari-Bologna matches (October 2018), Cagliari-Naples (with aggression in Capoterra in December 2018), Cagliari-Brescia (with an assault on the bus of guest fans in the August 2019), the attack by Polish supporters at the Navy in October 2019 and again the clashes in December 2019 for Cagliari-Lazio and the violence in San Nicolò Arcidano for a commemoration of a dead fan who ended up with rifle shots against the Sconvolts group.
The latest events of Cagliari-Naples have confirmed the theses of the investigators by triggering the measures.
In the searches , sticks, clubs, brass knuckles, smoke bombs, drugs and money were seized, as many as 53 thousand euros found at the home of the group's treasurer with accounting. Money obtained from the sale of scarves, flags and jerseys of Cagliari players.
Also present at the press conference was Luigi Bonagura , director of the DCPP / UCIGOS general information service from Rome.