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Dismantle the ‘System’ with which the Foggiana Company ‘subdued’ the local economy through extortion of commercial activities, also managing to create new businesses by infiltrating the entrepreneurship channels.
A mechanism broken last night, when -in Foggia and in 15 other provinces of the national territory- police and carabinieri investigators, as part of the maxi anti-mafia operation ‘Decimabis’, jointly carried out a precautionary measure – dictated by the Court of Bari the request of a group of magistrates from the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office, the Bari District Anti-Mafia Directorate and the Foggia Prosecutor’s Office – against 40 suspects, believed to belong to or are contiguous to the mafia organization Società Foggiana and responsible, in various capacities, for associations mafia-type, external competition in mafia association, extortion, attempted extortion, usury, interruption of auctions and drug trafficking, all aggravated by the mafia method.
Decimabis represents the continuation of the previous anti-mafia operation, called ‘Tenth Action’, carried out in November 2018, also in the city of Foggia, by the two police forces that operate, as well as the response to the violent attacks that took place in town at the beginning of the year. , which had a broad role at the national level, arousing deep social alarm.
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The important judicial investigation that summarized the results of various investigative activities, interconnected, was carried out by a working group made up of investigators from the 1st Division of the OCS, the mobile teams of Bari and Foggia, as well as the investigation unit of the Provincial Command of Carabineros de Foggia, and allowed to reconstruct the current organizational-functional dynamics, as well as the specific criminal activities of the three batteries that make up the Foggia society: Moretti-Pellegrino-Lanza, Sinesi-Francavilla and Trisciuoglio-Tolonese-Prencipe, to which they have long opposed, albeit in alternate phases, in a bloody mafia war for the attainment of internal leadership and control of the illicit but, at the same time, united in the distribution of economic-criminal interests, managed according to schemes consociative.
The complex and detailed investigations carried out, also with the important help of massive technical activities, also corroborated by the statements of some justice collaborators, have documented, among other things, how the mafia organization in question has achieved a generalized, omnipresent and the systematic extortion pressure against Foggia businessmen and merchants, managed according to a predefined and shared normative code, significantly referred to as the “System”; established a common fund, aimed at the payment of the salaries of the associates, as well as the maintenance of the detained associates and their families, also by supporting the legal costs, thus developing proven centralized management processes in the acquisition and distribution of resources economical.
The deep throat of the registry office
Again, extortion was handled as the collection of a real sovereignty tax, recording in a ledger the list of extorted commercial and business activities, as well as the “wages” paid to members; internal dynamics regulated through the systematic use of brutal violence as a tool to define internal structures and associative hierarchies; In recent years, he developed an important business vocation, and a parallel work of infiltration in the administrative sector, orienting the mafia association towards a more advanced model of business mafia.
The main recipients of the restrictive measure carried out by the researchers are protagonists, and in some cases even historical figures, of the Foggiana Company. Among the detainees is also an employee of the Municipality of Foggia, investigated for external competition in the mafia association, who provided information to exponents of the Sinesi-Francavilla battery, functional for carrying out extortion activities against local funeral companies as well as a local businessman. , active in the construction sector, under investigation for interruption of the auction.
Of particular importance were the statements of three collaborators of justice, originally intertwined with the Società Foggiana, who, with their mutually convergent declaratory contributions, further strengthened the accusatory system collected by the investigators, allowing, in particular, to acquire significant elements of evidence on the internal dynamics and criminal interests of the aforementioned mafia association.
The investigations revealed the generalized and generalized extortionary pressure exerted by the Foggia Company on the economic fabric of the city: from the weekly market of the city to the construction sector, from funeral service companies, to gambling halls and companies active in earthworks, from agri-food to horse racing : There is no economic area that the Foggia mob has skimped on subject to racket extortion.
Also alarming are the attempts to infiltrate and influence the public auction sector, the security services and the public administration, as well as the relationships and conversations that are activated with important exponents of the local business world subjected to mafia subjection.
This very important anti-mafia operation certifies, once again, the high commitment and determination of the State Team in the activity of countering and repressing organized crime in Foggia: a strong sign of trust and hope that aims to awaken social conscience. of an urban community that has been the victim and prisoner of suffocating and growing mafia oppression for too long.
