'Ndrangheta, Cassation says "no" to special surveillance for the Papalia boss
16 September 2019
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No special surveillance for Rocco Papalia , called the 'godfather' of Buccinasco (Milan), considered one of the most important leaders of the 'Ndrangheta in the
north and released in May 2017 after 26 years of detention.

This was confirmed by the Supreme Court declaring "inadmissible" an appeal by the Milan Public Prosecutor against a decision of the Milan Court of Appeal that had revoked the public safety prevention measure, for lack of social dangerousness.

In the meantime, in July 2018, the Supervisory Court of Milan ordered, for the boss, the security measure of the "work house", comparable to a prison, for two years.

In rejecting the appeal by the General Prosecutor, the Supreme Court explains that second instance judges correctly justified the no to special surveillance by clarifying that "the significant elements of the criminal caliber" of Papalia "date back to the early 2000s" and has already served a "detention more than twenty years".