Mafia, merchants denounce: 20 arrests for organized crime in Palermo. The neomelodic boss: “Get a tattoo with Falcone and Borsellino”

For years they have been in silence and they paid the cord. Has and Merchants and neighborhood businessmen Borgo Vecchio a Palermo they rebelled against the racket and have reported the extortion of mafia. The complaints led, on the morning of Tuesday, October 13, to the arrest by the police from 20 exponents of the mafia family of Borgovecchio, including clan chiefs, wing members, and debt collectors. the extortionaggravated by the mafia method, they have been rebuilt by researchers in the prosecutor’s investigation Anti-Mafia District from Palermo. twenty two In total, the extortions verified so far, six consummated and 16 attempts, which were perpetrated against merchants and businessmen who operate in the territory of the Mafia family, as well as two extortion activities committed through “Return horse”, in which they were asked to pay a “ransom” to obtain the stolen goods.

The number of spontaneous reports: 13 cases were discovered thanks to the complaints, while another 5 episodes were reconstructed by the investigations but then fully confirmed by the victims. The 20 detainees are detained in various capacities responsible for crimes of mafia-type criminal association directed at drug trafficking, theft and receipt of stolen goods, attempted murder aggravated damage, followed by fire, extortion consumed and aggravated attempt, aggravated damage, aggravated theft and receipt of stolen goods. The investigation, led by the deputy prosecutor Salvatore de luca, is a phase of an articulated maneuver carried out by the Palermo investigation unit on the mafia family of Borgo Vecchio which, the researchers emphasize, “allowed to test the ongoing operations of that articulation of our thing after the last operation in November 2017“.

Investigations allowed dislocation of the entire organization chart of the mafia family, which in addition to exercising the control of territory and of dealI was always looking for social consensus. For example througheconomic assistance to the families of the detained affiliates, infiltrations in the cheering world organized soccer in Palermo, exercised through the control of the Cosa Nostra of the local ultras groups, and also through the patron saint’s day from the neighborhood.

In fact, during the operation, “the strong interference in the organization of celebrations in honor of patron saint of the neighborhood, Mother Sant’Anna, scheduled from July 21 to 28, 2019 ″. According to research, singing evenings, animated by some singers neomelodic, were organized by a committee that, in fact, was controlled by Cosa Nostra. The gangsters chose and hired the singers. Among these, according to research, there were Niko Pandette, who used to open his concerts dedicating them “to those who unfortunately are in 41-bis”. His affection for the bosses had also reaffirmed it during a television interview in 2019. A famous neomelodic from Palermo, he was a friend of the boss. Jari ingarao, whom he met despite being under house arrest. Ingarao, now in prison, had instructed some of his men to force the merchants of the district to sponsor a Pandetta concert. Part of the proceeds would go to the clan coffers. But the performance did not take place, because after the words spoken to the singer on television forbidden to perform. “I said: get a tattoo and you write to yourself Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and the problems are solved ”, warned Pandetta one of the intercepted gangsters.

There were also the organized soccer fans between the sectors of interference of the Borgovecchio family. The investigations have outlined a significant picture of the relations between the supporters of Palermo and the Cosa Nostra of which, the researchers emphasize, “there is no participation of the society who runs the Palermo soccer team ”. Even if from a strictly territorial point of view, it is Barbera Stadium Palermo is located in the border area between the mafia districts of Resuttana me San Lorenzo-Tommaso Natale, the leaders of the Borgovecchio mafia family have shown “a compelling interest that I contrasts since ultras groups organized in Palermo were regulated according to the your directives, avoiding unpleasant clashes between ultras within the sports structure, considered on the one hand harmful for the conduction of competitions and on the other source of possible difficulties for a historical ultra rosanero pattern, contact element between Cosa Nostra and the motley world of organized citizens ”.

The operation allowed identifying the new regent of the Borgovecchio family, Angelo Monti, who dealt with the reorganization of the mafia, entrusting management positions to his henchmen. First, the researchers believe, Girolamo Monti, his brother and his right hand, with whom he had already managed the family until his arrest in 2007. A Giuseppe Gambino it was the task of hold and manage cash of the family. Then Salvatore Guarino, already condemned definitively for mafia association, made use of Giovanni zimmardi, Vincenzo Vullo me Filippo Leto organize and compromise extortion to the detriment of merchants. Jari Massimiliano Ingarao, grandson of Angelo Monti, managed the traffic sector of narcotic substances, with the help of brothers Gabriele and Danilo.