DEAD WITHOUT PEACE
The "mafia" in the cemetery, 70 suspects and 16 arrests in Cittanova and Milan
Carabinieri operation between the north and Reggio Calabria. According to investigations by the Palmi prosecutor's office, the organization had had control of the graves for years: it buried and exhumed the dead at will according to a "management parallel to that of the Municipality"

“Parallel management of the municipal cemetery”. Even to bury the dead it was necessary to have a special pass in Cittanova , according to the investigations by the Carabinieri of Gioia Tauro, coordinated by the Palmi prosecutor's office.

In fact, a vast operation is underway, which affects the provinces of Milan and Reggio Calabria, in which the military has carried out an order from the investigating judge against 16 suspects. Those considered to be at the top of the association are 4 people including the former caretaker of the cemetery, now retired , and three local entrepreneurs , administrators of two funeral homes . A total of 70 names ended up in the register of suspects.

According to what was claimed by the investigators, the four, all subjected to precautionary custody in prison, would have created a "parallel management" system to that of the local authority . And for years they would have carried out unauthorized exhumations, destroying or moving the bodies of the deceased to other niches, to make room for new burials.

(The details of the operation will be made known in a press conference that the Public Prosecutor of Palmi, Dr. Emanuele Crescenti, will hold at the Provincial Command of Reggio Calabria at 10.30).

“Over 460 bodies were suppressed or destroyed by the suspects”, says the commander of the Operational Department of the Carabinieri of Gioia Tauro.

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