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Stidda Canicattì, the names of the 23 stills.

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Stidda Canicattì, the names of the 23 stills. Even the instigator of the murder Livatino


Operation Xydi.

They had been meeting for two years in the office of a lawyer, for real mafia summits with prominent members of the clan. A hard blow for the stidda and the mafia families of the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani and in particular of the mafia district of Canicattì.

The investigation by the Palermo Anti-Mafia District Directorate led to the arrest of 22 people including the boss Antonio Galleabelieved to be the instigator of the murder of Judge Rosario Livatino which took place on 21 September 1990. After 25 years in prison, Gallea obtained semi-release in 2015 and was reorganizing the stidda to return to infiltrate the Sicilian economy.

It was he, along with another life prisoner in semi-liberty, the point of reference around which the Stidda was being rebuilt. The two were re-establishing relations with the Cosa Nostra, pieces of a pax mafia between the two organizations functional to the affairs of the clans in the area. Thanks to the telephone and environmental wiretapping of the Carabinieri del Ros, an inspector, an assistant police chief and a lawyer Angela Porcello also got into troublewho had assumed a leadership role in the clan. The suspects respond in various ways to mafia, extortion and aggravated aiding and abetting. Among the recipients of the arrest order also the super boss Matteo Messina Denaro fugitive for 28 years still recognized as the only real boss of Cosa Nostra.



The names of the suspects
The suspects during the Xydi anti-mafia operation they are: the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, known as U Sicccu, 58 years old Castelvetrano (Tp);
Giuseppe Falsone, 50 years old, Campobello di Licata (Ag);
Giancarlo Bugea, 50 years old, Palermo; Luigi Boncori, 68 years old, Ravanusa (Ag); Luigi Carmina, 57 years old Caltanissetta; Simone Castello, 71 years old, Villabate (Pa); Antonino Chiazza, 51 years old, Agrigento; Diego Emanuele Cigna, 21 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Giuseppe D'Andrea, 49 years old, Agrigento; Calogero Di Caro, 74 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Pietro Fazio, 48 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Gianfranco Roberto Gaetani, 53 years old, Naro (Ag); Antonio Gallea, 63 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Giuseppe Giuliana, 55, France; Gaetano Lombardo, 64 years old, Ravanusa (Ag); Gregorio Lombardo, 66 years old, Favara (Ag); Antonino Oliveri, 36 years old Canicattì (Ag); Calogero Paceco, 56 years old, Naro (Ag); Giuseppe Pirrera, 61 years old, Favara (Ag); Filippo Pitruzzella, 60 years old, Campobello di Licata (Ag); Angela Porcella, 50 years old, Agrigento; Santo Rinallo. 60 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Giuseppe Sicilia, 41 years old Agrigento.