The investigation made it possible to shed light on the organization chart of the mafia families of the districts of Ciaculli and Brancaccio, which includes clans such as Corso dei Mille and Roccella. In particular, the investigations that have shed light on the new leaders of the Brancaccio clan have ascertained that, after a blitz conducted in 2019, the mafia families have tried to reorganize.
In this way, leaders, followers and “soldiers” affiliated with Cosa Nostra were identified, who would have carried out dozens of extortions, committed to numerous merchants and entrepreneurs and would have managed the shopping squares scattered throughout the Brancaccio area. Part of the money raised from these activities would be used to support the families of the inmates. The ordinance reconstructs and documents 50 extortions against owners of commercial businesses: from the small illegal street vendor to the operator of large-scale distribution.
The lace was imposed on all economic operators. The extortion did not spare even a sfincione seller (typical focaccia in Palermo), who, after finding the padlocks blocked by the attak, turned to one of the suspects for the “fixing”. Even a building contractor turned to Brancaccio’s family to be able to build apartments without problems. He had intended to buy land and even earlier, as emerges in a conversation recorded by the police, he would have asked the Mafia family for protection in order not to incur theft, robbery or damage.
Cosa Nostra behind the theft of 16 thousand masks
– There would be Cosa Nostra behind the theft of twenty cartons with 16 thousand FFp3 masks stolen for
resell them, in full epidemiological emergency. As a precautionary measure, recalling an episode that emerged already three years ago, the judge stigmatizes the mafia subculture, underlining that “one cannot fail to point out that it constitutes a plastic demonstration of how the choice of life of the suspects is founded, already in cultural and ideals, precisely on a principle of opposition to the foundations of democratic freedom and respect for the rules.
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