'Ndrangheta: Pasquale Zagari arrested for attempted extortion.

Pasquale ZAGARI, already sentenced to life imprisonment for mafia association, murders, arms crimes, corpse concealment and more, was arrested by the carabinieri of Taurianova for attempted extortion against a local businessman.

One of the most violent protagonists of the feud that raged in Taurianova between the 80s and 90s, during which the death of his father, Rocco Zagari, killed in a barber shop, represented the triggering event of the "massacre of Black Friday" of Taurianova, in which four people were killed in revenge, one of whom with a severed head, in the city center, had recently returned to freedom, after in 2015 life imprisonment was reduced to 30 years .

Following some information acquisition that indicated the man as intent on imposing extortion on some local traders and entrepreneurs, the Carabinieri of Taurianova intervened. The man was blocked after yet another visit to a local entrepreneur, on whom he wanted to illegitimately impose his will, just relying on his criminal caliber and reputation, and then arrested in flagrant for attempted aggravated extortion.

Zagari, whose dangerousness is demonstrated by a violent escape attempt in 2009, when he had no qualms about firing a firearm at the escort police during a transport, is now restricted to the Palmi Prison.