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The circle closes on the Liege-Favara dispute, which since 2015 has left a trail of blood characterized by five assassination attempts, two murders and so many attacks never reported to the judicial authorities. The Agrigento Mobile Brigade, together with the Belgian police, carried out the “Mosaico” operation under the coordination of the Palermo Anti-Mafia District Directorate. Antonino Bellavia, 48, ends up handcuffed; Calogero Bellavia, 31 years old; Calogero Ferraro, 42 years old; Carmelo Nicotra, 38 years old; Gerlando Russotto, 31 years old; Carmelo Vardaro, 44 years old; Vincenzo Vitello, 65, Michelangelo Bellavia, 32.
On the list of suspects, however, eighteen people belonging to the “vein” of drugs and weapons: Antonio Bellavia, 48; Calogero Bellavia, 32 years old; Salvatore Butticè, 32 years old; Calogero Ferraro, 42 years old; Salvatore Fortunato, 21 years old; Salvatore Greco, 23 years old; Calogero Gambino Greco, 28 years old; Vincenzo Lattuca, 40 years old; Carmelo Nicotra, 38 years old; Emilio Nobile, 25 years old; Alessandro Puntorno, 49 years old; Filippo Russotto, 46 years old; Calogero Gastoni, 38 years old.
Among the names of the suspects are those of the brother and ex-partner of Gessica Lattuca, a single mother who disappeared two years ago from Favara, but also known “old men” from the criminal scene such as the Sicilia brothers, considered “close” to the Massimino and Alessandro clan. Puntorno, brother of Andrea ultras in chief of Juve involved in the “Kerkent” investigation and in a couple of investigations into the Ndrangheta for drug trafficking.
The investigation, coordinated by the Palermo Anti-Mafia District Directorate, is called Mosaico and for the first time we witnessed the creation of a Joint Investigation team with competence in all the participating States.
The operation called ‘Mosaic’, which also refers to documented episodes of drug trafficking, which will be dealt with by the Agrigento Prosecutor’s Office, has allowed the capture in Belgium of three people, in execution of so many European arrest warrants. “For these captures we had the collaboration of the prosecutors of Liège, Bilzen and La Louviere”, explain the investigators. However, four people were captured in Favara. About twenty searches were also carried out, with the use of more than 80 Italian and Belgian police officers, personnel from the Department of Crime Prevention and the Palermo Flight Department, canine units from Catania and Palermo. Seized weapons.
The operation called ‘Mosaic’, also refers to documented episodes of drug trafficking, which will be dealt with by the Agrigento Prosecutor’s Office, has allowed the capture in Belgium of three people, in execution of so many European arrest warrants. “For these captures we had the collaboration of the prosecutors of Liège, Bilzen and La Louviere,” the investigators explain. However, four people were captured in Favara. About twenty searches were also carried out, with the use of more than 80 Italian and Belgian police officers, personnel from the Department of Crime Prevention and the Palermo Flight Department, canine units from Catania and Palermo. Seized weapons.
THE FAIDA. September 14, 2016 – On a quiet summer afternoon, in the Outremeuse district of Liège, inside an apartment building at 10 rue Saint-Julien between rue Puits-en-Sock and Liberty, the 28-year-old dies originally from Porto Empedocle. Mario Jakelich and Maurizio Di Stefano, 40, from Favara, were seriously injured. The two had recently been to Liege. Jakelich died almost immediately, while Di Stefano miraculously managed, albeit wounded, to escape the attack. The dispute begins. It is the point of no return.
October 26, 2016 – Little more than a month passes and the murderers are back in action. This time in Favara, in the central Via Vittorio Veneto, in front of a supermarket in broad daylight. The victim of the ambush is Carmelo Ciffa, 42 years old from Porto Empedocle: he was a socially useful worker and, just when he had the intention of cutting some plants from the flowerbed “Paghi Poco” in Favara, he was hit by at least four shots from small gauge. Ciffa is injured, but tries in vain to take refuge in the market. He will die shortly after his serious injuries.
May 4, 2017 – We go back to Belgium. We are in the Sclessin district, on the outskirts of Liège. At the exit of the “Grande Fratello” restaurant, a hail of AK47 bullets – at least a dozen – reaches the restaurateur and owner of the “Grande Fratello” restaurant-pizzeria, Rino Sorce, 50, originally from Favara. In the ambush, in which Sorce is killed instantly, one of the restaurant’s employees, Luigi Corrado, is also injured. According to investigators, this murder could also be related to the dispute that began in September of the previous year. Sorce had a clean record, had integrated well into the Belgian social and economic fabric, and often returned to Favara. His execution, with AK47 shots, like a boss, sounds the alarm of investigators.
23 May 2017 – It is an apparently calm afternoon when a murderous commando gets out of a car and directs a hail of bullets fired by a Kalashikhov and a 9 caliber towards Carmelo Nicotra, 35, while he was in the vicinity of his garage. in via Torino. But something did not go well and the organized command to carry out the crime had to renounce the desire for blood. Nicotra, rescued by someone but abandoned in the vicinity of the San Giovanni di Dio hospital in Agrigento with the clear purpose of not being identified, was later seen by a wedding couple walking down the same road, towards the industrial zone. The 35-year-old from Favara has been reticent from the beginning towards the Agrigento Mobile agents who were questioning him: he does not remember much of the incident or of who might be angry with him. This is how the mobile squad’s hold became more and more pressing: the car used for the ambush, a Renault Kangoo, was found in the Bisaccia district, charred. In Nicotra’s garage, investigators also found a Fiat Punto, which was stolen in Catania in 2016, which is why the 35-year-old himself was entered in the register of suspects for receiving stolen goods.
November 22, 2017 – Six months after the ambush of Carmelo Nicotra, the turning point: six people investigated for the crime of attempted aggravated homicide: these are Favaresi Calogero and Antonio Bellavia, 27 and 44, Calogero and Emanuele Ferraro, 39 and 41, and Carmelo Vardaro, 39, under investigation for attempted aggravated homicide and receipt of stolen property. Calogero and Antonio Bellavia, 27 and 44, are currently in prison because, last June, they were “pinched” by the police in a car with two pistols: a “Taurus 375 magnum”, which was later discovered to have been stolen from Carmelo Nicotra, and a Smith. & Weston 38 special with worn serial number. In the register of suspects, for the crime of complicity, the victim of the ambush, Carmelo Nicotra, also appears.
23 January 2018 – The investigation appears to be at a turning point: the deputy prosecutors of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate dealing with the dispute unify the cases of the murder of Ciffa and the attempted murder of Nicotra in a single file. For researchers to link the two episodes there would be only one thread. For this reason, “unrepeatable evidence” is prepared on “suspicious” vehicles that are looking for any evidence: gunpowder, blood, saliva, etc. In addition, shortly before, the Agrigento Mobile Brigade carried out some searches against the six suspects from whom computers and mobile phones were seized, but without a trace of weapons or clothing. Records also in the Favara cemetery where one of the suspects, Emanuele Ferraro, was involved in burials.
March 8, 2018 – Filming starts again after almost a year. Once again in Favara. It’s just after ten in the morning when a commando – apparently aboard a Lancia Ypsilon – enters the scene in via Armando Díaz, a few steps from the Main Church of Favara. Five shots, 7.65 caliber, are fired at the home of Emanuele Ferraro, 41, one of the six investigated for the attempted murder of Carmelo Nicotra. The bricklayer desperately tries to escape trying to take cover behind his Fiat Fiorino van. But there is nothing to do.
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