Ambushes with Kalashnikovs and drugs, bombing between Sicily and Belgium



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The dispute between two clans of Agrigento has been reconstructed. A double murder attempt is contested, but five crimes are investigated

PALERMO – A drug bridge between Sicily and Belgium probably provoked a bloody enmity, fought with Kalashnikov blows. Five dead and five unsuccessful ambushes.

The arrested

During the night, the mobile teams from Agrigento and Palermo, and from the central operational service seven people were arrested. Four in Sicily and three abroad: Antonino Bellavia, class 72, Calogero Bellavia 1989, Calogero Ferraro class 78, Carmelo Nicotra 82, Gerlando Russotto class 89, Carmelo Vardaro class 76, Vincenzo Vitello class 56.

The crimes

Controversial crimes are international drug trafficking, attempted double homicide, extortion, possession of weapons. But the Directorate of the Palermo Anti-Mafia District is convinced that it will soon be able to unveil the background of a long trail of death. At the moment some pieces are missing, but the work of the deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido and the alternates Claudio Camilleri, Gianluca De Leo, Calogero Ferrara and Alessia Sinatra is not yet finished.

The Directorate of the Palermo Antimafia District, Led by prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi, through Eurojust, it created for the first time a Joint Investigation Team with the Liège federal police.

The trail of blood

On May 23, 2017 Carmelo Nicotra, 35 years old, is hit by a rain of fire. The assassins take Kalashnikovs. Nicotra miraculously escapes death. It comes out with a blow to the buttock.

The moment of the ambush

Two cameras film the killers they first meet and then shoot wildly near a garage. There is a video that testifies to the violence. Nicotra the baker, but she usually goes to Belgium. According to investigators, he is linked to the Di Stefano clan, known by the nickname “Fury”.

The real target of the killers is Maurizio Distefano, 41, who manages to save himself. And this is the attempted murder aggravated by the mafia method by which the investigating judge Guglielmo Nicastro has accepted the request for arrest at the time.

But the trail of blood is much longer. On March 8, 2018 in Favara he is assassinated Emanuele Ferraro. The body of the forty-year-old bricklayer was found at ten in the morning, between via Armando Diaz and via dei Mille, a few steps from the Main Church. He received five shots from a 9X21 caliber pistol.

On May 3, 2017, in Sclessin, a suburb of Liège, he was assassinated shortly after 10 p.m. Baldassare Sorce, 51 years old, Born in Favara, owner of the pizzeria “The older brother”.

On September 14, 2016, a commando takes action once more in Liège. Four shots in the middle of the night in an apartment building in the Outremeuse neighborhood. Belgian police find the body of Mario Jakelich, 28 years old, from Porto Empedocle. Along with the victim is still there Maurizio Distefano, 41, of Favara. She’s dying, but she’ll be fine.

October 26, 2016 Carmelo Ciffa, 42 years old, He was shot dead on Corso Vittorio Veneto in Favara. Originally from Porto Empedocle, he got off officially with odd jobs. The morning of the ambush he was removing a dry palm. There was some drug history in his criminal record.

The first murder and the enmity

But it is in January 2015 when prosecutors trace the start of the dispute.. And it is that, the day of the ambush in which Carmelo Bellavia, nicknamed “Melo carnazza“There would be an unpaid drug game behind the murder. From that moment on the incurable gap is created between the fury ei carnazza. Meanwhile, the two groups would continue to import and sell cocaine and marijuana in Belgium and Sicily.



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