After the arrests of Falsone and Messina, Messina Denaro boss wins the province of Agrigento and elects new loyal to Sambuca and Sciacca. Meanwhile, in Palermo with the operation "Addiopizzo 5" dozens of entrepreneurs report their abusers and 63 people are arrested. Why paying your taxes to the State, not the mafia A new Mafia family, very close to the powerful and super-fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro.
This would be an identikit of Castelvetrano famigghia indicated by the same boss of the district in order to put Agrigento, at present much in disarray after the arrests of former boss Giuseppe Falsone e Gerlandino Messina.
Il superlatitante sta cercando di serrare le fila dei fedelissimi e, com’era ipotizzabile, ha preso il comando del territorio agrigentino, soprattutto della parte occidentale, quello per intenderci, compreso tra Sciacca, Sambuca e la bassa Quisquina.
La famiglia saccense indicata da Messina Denaro avrebbe accresciuto il proprio potere economico e non solo nel corso degli ultimi tempi, in un periodo relativamente recente e potrebbe riordinarsi attorno alla figura di un vecchio capomafia, attualmente in carcere.
Matteo Messina Denaro ha approfittato della debolezza dei clan della zona per imporre anche in provincia di Agrigento la propria egemonia ed estendere oltremodo la fitta rete di affari che lo coinvolge: buildings, large public contracts, shopping malls, supermarkets, lace, drugs, business waste and arms trafficking. In short, wherever there is the possibility of making money.
The new boss of the province indicated by the super-fugitive would be a boss instead of sixty Sambuca di Sicilia, which would not take kindly to the Capizzi Ribera. A strategic choice to move the axis from the mafia east and west of the province, that, to be closer to Castelvetrano.
Moreover, after the capture of Messina Gerlandino, the area between Porto Empedocle and Favara has become a real powder keg at the time that nobody can control.
The real risk is that that bursts a blood feud between Messina Denaro and Capizzi for the control of the territory. In Sicily, however, are going to get large amounts of funding and only that at present is avoiding a mafia war. How he used to say Bernardo Provenzano in the various summit between the mafias, public procurement can be reached by agreement, with silence, with peace. Meanwhile, do not stop the investigation of the investigators, he extended throughout the island. Objective: To disrupt the incredibly dense network of racketeering. At Christmas
pizzini Salvatore and Sandro Lo Piccolo, already under arrest for several years, bring a gift to the arrest of 63 honest Sicily loyalists boss and his son. They ended up in jail on charges ranging association for criminal mafia extortion, the association aimed at drug trafficking, possession of firearms and dummy header property. The transaction involved the families of Thomas Christmas Palermo, Mondello Partanna, Carini, Cinisi and Terrasini. In short, supporters of the two bosses who had continued to remain so, according to the family business.
The operation of the flying squad of Palermo has been possible thanks to the long and unbroken analytical work done on Giardinello pizzini found in the hideout, where the boss was arrested Nov. 5, 2007, which so far has led to the capture total of 184 persons , the identification of responsible di 87 estorsioni e al sequestro di 15 società con fatturati milionari.
Dalla decifrazione dei pizzini, gli investigatori, con questo quinto e ultimo filone dell’inchiesta denominata “Addiopizzo”, sono riusciti a risalire ai responsabili delle estorsioni, del traffico di stupefacenti e a delineare lo scenario estorsivo palermitano. Sono stati così identificati i soggetti ritenuti responsabili di estorsioni o traffico di stupefacenti. La polizia scientifica è riuscita a ricostruire alcune trame mafiose dei Lo Piccolo estrapolando i dati contenuti nel nastro di una macchina per scrivere, reso apparentemente inservibile e buttato tra i rifiuti.
Secondo quanto è emerso dalle indagini a pagare il pizzo sono stati, tra gli altri, some contractors who carried out the refurbishment of the airport Falcone-Borsellino ", those who have made a military mother and a kindergarten. The police have also shed light on the project of Lo Piccolo from Palermo to monopolize the market of drugs, invading it with cocaine from South America through the Dutch ports.
"On the contrast to the protection racket operations" AddioPizzo "have played a strategic role in breaking the wall of silence merchants. Palermo is the vanguard in the fight to the protection racket in Sicily, with respect to certain areas of the province that are still lagging behind in this respect. " Explanations importanti quelle del pm Antonino Ingroia. Le vittime dunque hanno collaborato e denunciato. Un passo avanti per rendere questa terra più pulita e più libera dal malaffare. “La Sicilia - ha aggiunto - è cambiata rispetto ad anni fa. Gli imprenditori si mostrano sempre più collaborativi. E questo è un dato di primaria importanza per il nostro lavoro”.
L'inchiesta “Addiopizzo” si è dunque conclusa ed è tempo di primi bilanci. Il capo della Procura di Palermo Francesco Messineo ha usato molta prudenza. “Siamo di fronte ad una crepa nel muro di omertà dietro al quale si trincerano normalmente le vittime del racket”, ha detto. “Quando i commercianti potranno gestire le proprie attività, worrying about the market and not experiencing the fear of the racket - continued Messineo - Palermo, Sicily in general and land will be normal. Especially now, near the Christmas holidays, that I renew the appeal to traders victims of the racket is to find the strength to denounce their extortionists. " The president of Confindustria Sicilia
Ivan Lo Bello stressed the importance of economic operators to cooperate harassed assisted by Addiopizzo especially emphasized that "there are still many traders who continue to pay protection money, not realizing the damage caused to the fabric economic and civil society and the new season is underway in our region. "
To emphasize the importance and also the termination of the action expressed by the Governor Raffaele Lombardo. "Today's police operation releases a large area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Palermo by the tentacles of the protection racket, struck a decisive blow to one of the most dangerous mafias. I express appreciation and gratitude of the entire government of the Region to the judiciary and the police squad for yet another great achievement in the struggle for liberation of Sicily by the Mafia. From this emerges a significant slice of what is now the Mafia in Sicily: an organization still dangerously able to infiltrate and pollute the economic system, but against whom, finally, a growing number of entrepreneurs rebels and complaint, thanks to the valuable and courageous work of the anti-racket associations operating in the territory, a reality that, with the support for the arts and civil complaint, alongside the activities law enforcement and investigative magistrates. "
good wishes for 2011: that more and more businessmen and shopkeepers coalizzino in the complaint and the refusal of subjection to the racket. The fees are paid to the State and not the mafia.
Parlapiano Calogero - from "Controvoce"
