Anti-mafia operation, the faithful collaborators of the Santapaola-Ercolano clan are targeted: 21 arrests

Since the first light of dawn, more than 100 carabinieri from the Catania provincial command, in the provinces of Catania, Milan and Lecce, in the Etnean District Prosecutor’s delegation, are executing an order of preventive detention in prison issued by the Gip of the Catania court against 21 people, investigated, in various capacities, for crimes of association type mafia, association directed to illicit drug trafficking, possession and trafficking of narcotics, extortion and multiple aggravated injuries, all crimes committed with the aggravation of the method gangster .

The video of the carabinieri operation

The survey made it possible to outline the apical position of Benedetto La Motta, 62, a reference for the Riposto area of ​​the Cosa Nostra Catania Santapaola-Ercolano family, as well as that of his most loyal collaborators, including 76-year-old Antonino Marano. , known as the prison killer. The operation of the carabinieri is part of a specific police activity initiated in accordance with the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Public Ministry of the Republic of Etna and launched by Arma against the Cosa Nostra family in Catania Santapaola-Ercolano both in the capital and throughout the province, through the use of highly specialized investigative components to combat the infiltration of the association in the sector of economic activities, as well as of the police companies for the dismantling of mafia groups that aim at direct control of the territory.

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