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In the heart of Sicily, the mafias are reorganizing. With the bosses released from jail and the unsuspected. One of the instigators of the judge’s crime Rosario Livatino, Angelo gallea, had relaunched the “Stidda”, the other mafia, since it was in semi-freedom. His loyalists were planning new businesses and even two assassinations. “Cosa Nostra” could instead count on a lawyer from Canicattì, Angela Porcello: In his studio in via Rosario Livatino he organized mafia summits and meanwhile he continued to get the messages from the godparents locked up in 41 bis out of jail. The released chief and the lawyer turned chief, the two faces of the clans that do not seem at all weakened by the blitzes and trials: they were arrested tonight by the Carabinieri del Ros along with twenty other people. The recipient of the arrest warrant is also Matteo Messina Money, but the Trapani chief, once protected from Totò Riina He has been on the run since 1993. But this time, we know much more than everything that revolves around him.
The latest investigation coordinated by the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office Francesco Lo You and by the attachment Paolo Guido it is the living history of the Sicilian mafia. “Presence is power,” boasted the Agrigentini godparents, whom the investigators intercepted for two years. “They had a current and very secret communication network with the fugitive Messina Denaro – prosecutors write Claudio Camilleri, Gianluca De Leo me Back to Ferrara – and they unanimously recognized him as the only one who has the last word “in important decisions. For example, the appointment of a manager. Or a deal that the emissaries of the Gambino clan from New York who came to Favara proposed to the Sicilians.” Messina Denaro is still capable of making very delicate decisions for the balance of power of Cosa Nostra – it is the researcher’s analysis – despite its exceptional capacity for eclipsing and invisibility that make it still impregnable ”.
Six leaders of Agrigento’s Cosa Nostra ended up in prison, who had relations with members of the mafia from all over Sicily: prosecutors underline “the uniqueness of Cosa Nostra.” Three heads of the reborn Stidda are also handcuffed ”and nine other members of the mafia. An inspector of the prison police and a deputy chief of the state police, both on duty in Agrigento, have been arrested and accused of having been at the disposal of the clan’s lawyer.
Mafia, wiretapping of the boss: “Presence is power”
The return of lives
Angelo gallea, instigator of the murder of Judge Livatino, had been released from prison on January 21, 2015, after serving 25 years. He was considered a model prisoner. Now, the Palermo prosecutors write in the arrest that returns him to prison: “The provision that admitted the benefit of semilibertà, issued by the Naples surveillance court, was also based on the declaration of” impossibility “of his collaboration with the Justice. “. That is, the declaration that all the crimes he committed had been proven and therefore his collaboration would have been impossible.
In reality, Gallea still held many secrets, which became her strength when she returned to freedom. Secrets about old accomplices, businesses and assets never discovered. On October 6, 2017, another exponent of the “Stidda”, also sentenced to life imprisonment, was admitted to semi-release after 26 years by the Sassari surveillance court, with authorization to work outside the prison. And he also returned to crime.
Both have exploited the reward discipline also provided for inmates sentenced to life imprisonment – write the magistrates in their detention measure – to return to act in the territory with methods already proven in the past and thus revitalize a criminal-mafia band, Stidda’s. , condemned for some time to extinction, and project it with cruelty and violence in the Agrigento area “.
Unlike in the past, Cosa Nostra and Stidda had drawn up a “peace agreement,” however, the investigators note, “they continued to look at each other with distrust.” Above all, there were many businesses at stake, linked to mediations in the fruit and vegetable market in the province of Agrigento.
Lawyer and boss
Angela PorcelloA 50-year-old lawyer since 1996, he ended up in prison accused of mafia association. The prosecutor writes: “He had decided to renounce his toga and put on the clothes of his fellow mobster, gradually ascending to the role of the true organizer of the Canicattì mafia district.” Angela Porcello was a lawyer for the historic capo Giuseppe Falsone, the head of the mafia province of Agrigento arrested in 2010 in Marseille. She was the one who got the godfather’s messages out of jail. And other bosses had appointed her too. Thus, Canicattì’s lawyer had become a perfect messenger.
The magistrates reconstruct: “His law firm had been selected and identified as a logistical base by a group of family heads.” The chiefs were sure they weren’t intercepting them there. And so they organized real summits, in the presence of the lawyer Porcello. There were the elderly head of the Canicattì district, who quietly came out of house arrest, and then the heads of the families of Ravanusa, Favara, Licata. The meetings were also attended by a mobster from Villabate (Palermo) who in his day was faithful to Bernardo Provenzano and an exponent of the reborn “Stidda”.
Hundreds of hours of wiretapping, “probative material of exceptional relevance – as defined by the prosecutors in their provision – a material that made it possible to capture the direct origin and evolution of the internal dynamics of Cosa Nostra from the voice of the members of the organization of all Sicily.
Do them in hard prison
“In the course of this investigation – it is another chapter of the accusation of the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office – worrying spaces of very serious interaction between the prisoners, between the prisoners and the outside, as well as between the prisoners and members of the penitentiary police; interaction that the current prison system has not been able to avoid at that time ”.
In Novara prison, three accredited chiefs – from Agrigento, Trapani and Gela – “managed to get in touch, dialogue with each other, sometimes even exchange information aimed at ensuring a channel of communication with the outside world.” And yet they didn’t have an air hour together. “They exploited – prosecutors accuse – the inefficiencies of the controls of the prison police personnel.” For those who investigate, “a very serious story”; Until now, these gangsters have only exchanged “information”, but “what happened could be repeated – the magistrates point out – with projects and strategies of another nature, perhaps even endangering, as history teaches, even State security” . .
A “very serious matter”, with a paradox, this also becomes a harsh accusation by the Palermo prosecutors: “Being subject to the 41 bis regime, rather than constituting an insurmountable communication barrier for the mafia, was even an opportunity to meet and exchange of information, otherwise very risky, if not unimaginable if the bosses of the mafia themselves were free ”.
