Brawls, punitive expeditions, attacks on rival fans on the street or in accommodation facilities, assaults on buses, threats.
Coordinating three years of violent actions by the Sconvolts, organized supporters of the rossoblù team, a managerial quadrumvirate who entrusted the tasks of shadowing the ultra-rivals and ordered the blitzes financed with the money collected from the sale of scarves, with the lotteries for the footballers' shirts of Cagliari and with sales activities .
The investigations of the Cagliari Digos led to the ordinance carried out yesterday morning at dawn . Two hundred police officers broke into homes in various districts of Cagliari and the hinterland at first light, while a helicopter followed the blitz from above.
Of the 36 members of the Sconvolts group, five ended up in prison, 13 under house arrest, 11 are required to stay and four to sign. They are accused in various ways of criminal association aimed at committing fights, violence, threats, damage and attacks on transport safety . Three suspects are free: among them also the former Cagliari player, Andrea Cossu , external to the association but linked to various members of the group. The prosecutor asked for the ban on his role as manager in the rossoblù club but the investigating judge said no.
COSSU “TRAIT D'UNION” - Cossu has always admitted that he has a special bond with organized supporters : “It was my strength because I knew I had them all behind me, I will never deny it. Always by our side, for better or for worse ".
The accusation of the prosecutor Danilo Tronci of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate is this: external competition in criminal association . Cossu, defined by the investigators as the "trait d'union" between society and criminal association, was not part of the group of mobsters but "contributed significantly" to its "survival" and its "strengthening".
He attends the meetings of the Sconvolts, attends their headquarters (he has the keys) and is "well aware of the existence of an internal criminal articulation" because he is informed by the "old leaders" of the "violent" drift of the new generation : he grants shirts and technical clothing used in matches, material sold "to finance the group" and for the personal "advantage" of the garments (prohibited practice).
The lawyer Leonardo Filippi, however, says he is sure that Cossu is "in good faith" and that he can "demonstrate extraneousness to the accusations already in the investigation phase".
(Unioneonline)
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