After about 28 years of imprisonment , last week the boss Antonino Imerti, 72 years old brother-in-law of the boss Domenico Condello known as "u pacciu", was released. Imerti, known as the 'ferocious dwarf ', was the splinter leader in the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio that started the armed clash against the former allies De Stefano-Tegano-Libri. A rebellion born from a failed attack against him carried out with a car bomb in Villa San Giovanni, which the boss attributed to Paolo De Stefano as principal.

Imerti's reaction against the former ally at the time - on 10 October 1985 - was extremely violent. Paolo De Stefano, a fugitive, was murdered along with a bodyguard, while he was passing aboard a motorbike in via Mercatello, in the heart of the Reggio district of Archi. From that moment the violent "war of 'Ndrangheta" broke out, in Reggio Calabria and in the province, which in five years caused almost a thousand murders. Antonino Imerti was placed under probation.