The state police arrested in Reggio Calabria the alleged instigator and perpetrators of the murder of Bruno Ielo, tobacconist killed with a gunshot to the head on May 25, 2017. Francesco Mario Dattilo, indicated as the operational killer, Francesco Polimeni and Cosimo Scaramozzino.
The 66-year-old trader was killed on a mandate by an exponent of the 'Ndrangheta in a blatant manner with a pistol abandoned next to the corpse, because he had not wanted to bend to the diktat of the gang to close the tobacconist competing with that of the principal of the murder, a prominent element of the Tegano family.