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The complaints against the suspects are, for various reasons, mafia association, extortion, arson, robbery, personal assistance and electoral corruption, aggravated by the mafia method. The handcuffs were taken by some businessmen and by a manager of a public company in Trapani who is also the president of a social winery while the mayor is only under investigation. A series of searches are also underway in the Trapani countryside for look for weapons.
The investigations made it possible to rebuild a dense network of affiliates and sympathizers of the mafia team that is part of the commandment alcamese, operating mainly in the municipality of Calatafimi – Segesta.
Central figure, at the top of the local mafia family, Nicolò Pidone, already sentenced for 416 bis within the framework of the investigation called Crimiso, which in 2012 had led to the arrest of as many members also belonging to the families of Castellammare del Golfo and Alcamo. Those arrested today referred to him, whom he received confidentially in a ramshackle outhouse adjacent to his farm.
The main decisions on the events considered relevant for Cosa Nostra were made at the Pidone farm. As a demonstration of the depth of the referent of the local mafia family, it was progressively verified that the man had become a privileged interlocutor of subjects and characters from other territorial contexts, managed by other mafia families. In fact, relations outside the mandate were also monitored, which shows a certain breakdown of the traditional balances derived from the pressure of the repressive apparatuses. In fact, among the suspects stand out the names of characters already convicted of mafia such as Leo Rosario Tommaso, criminal, but also cousin of these Leo Stefano, against whom recent contacts with the representative of the Calatafimi family have been documented.
According to investigators, Leo Stefano was close to the late boss Vito Gondola already the damned Sergio Giglio, both involved in the events of the transmission of the “pizzini” directed at Matteo Messina Denaro. In addition, Stefano also participated in the in the career of prisoner for life Vito Marino, captured by the police in October 2018.
In the investigations, however, also subjects, not burdened by a criminal record, who for various reasons had favored communications between the head of the Calatafimese family and other members of the mafia association, including Leo Rosario Tommaso himself. Among them the 46-year-old agricultural entrepreneur vitese Simone Domenico. In the nets of the investigation, Barone Salvatore, until last summer president of the Board of Directors of the Atm de Trapani transport company, former general director of the same corporate structure with public participation, recipient of the arrest and the mayor of Calatafimi, currently under investigation and not beneficiary of a provision, for the crimes of attempted extortion and electoral corruption, aggravated by the mafia method.
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