Rocco Femia, 54, was also found charred, also in Gassino, inside a burned-out car in 2007.

Torched car found with body inside near Turin
Charred corpse found in countryside at Gassino

(ANSA) - TURIN, JUN 3 - Italian police on Thursday found a burned-out car containing a charred body in open fields at Gassino near Turin.
Police are trying to establish what caused the car, a Fiat Panda, to catch fire.
But they think it was set alight.
The person inside has yet to be identified.
An autopsy has been ordered. (ANSA)

Most guys of Siderno group are free again, Commisso, Crupi, Coluccio.

Gassino, perhaps it was suicide: the man was still alive while the car was burning
It should be Pietro Valora, a small building contractor domiciled in Chivasso who had debt problems

04 June 2021
TURIN. The body found burnt yesterday in the car set on fire in an orchard in Strada Gassino in Bardassano di Gassino had traces of smoke ashes in the trachea. So he would still be alive while the car burned. This was established this morning by the examination by the coroner Roberto Testi.
Now, samples will be taken from the remains for DNA examination. But it should be Pietro Valora, a small building contractor domiciled in Chivasso. For the Prosecutor of Ivrea it would be a suicide due to debts, but to make a more in-depth investigation, the prosecutor Alessandro Gallo has opened a case for murder, but against unknown persons.

Suicide by setting himself on fire inside a car? Strange way to commit suicide

No way it was suicide doesn't make sense like you said strax, Valora is originally from Gela, Sicily.

Gela, located in the Caltanisetta province of Sicily. The Emmanuello and Rinzivillo clans of Cosa Nostra are there as well as the Stidda.

I don't know Stidda is relevant, today they are reduced to very small numbers.

Stidda is very relevant today, recent operation called Operation Leonessa where 35 Stiddari were rounded up and over $100 million in assets seized. And the boss was talking about going to war with Cosa Nostra.

I agree here. I recently read an Italian article about Cosa Nostra recognizing the Stidda clans, even saying they were more than on par with the LCN families in the area, I'll look for it now. ....

I think it was actually Operation Stella Cadente, which was being undertaken at the same time as Operation Leonessa. Man I wish we had a Gangland News Italy that could explain exactly what's going on in plain English, Italian to English translated articles suck.

Lol, sorry, wrong one..

Here we go......


https://www.quotidianodiragusa.it/2...-il-mandante-dellomicidio-livatino/79879

Ragusa newspaperTuesday 08 June 2021Deco Pozzallo

Stidda Canicattì, the names of the 23 stills.

Even the instigator of the murder LivatinoAnti-mafia operation in Sicily: Stidda beheaded. With the long shadow of Matteo Messina DenaroClear BottleFebruary 02, 2021 6:03 pm
Stidda Canicattì, the names of the 23 stills. Even the instigator of the murder Livatino


Operation Xydi.

They had been meeting for two years in the office of a lawyer, for real mafia summits with prominent members of the clan. A hard blow for the stidda and the mafia families of the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani and in particular of the mafia district of Canicattì.

The investigation by the Palermo Anti-Mafia District Directorate led to the arrest of 22 people including the boss Antonio Galleabelieved to be the instigator of the murder of Judge Rosario Livatino which took place on 21 September 1990. After 25 years in prison, Gallea obtained semi-release in 2015 and was reorganizing the stidda to return to infiltrate the Sicilian economy.

It was he, along with another life prisoner in semi-liberty, the point of reference around which the Stidda was being rebuilt. The two were re-establishing relations with the Cosa Nostra, pieces of a pax mafia between the two organizations functional to the affairs of the clans in the area. Thanks to the telephone and environmental wiretapping of the Carabinieri del Ros, an inspector, an assistant police chief and a lawyer Angela Porcello also got into troublewho had assumed a leadership role in the clan. The suspects respond in various ways to mafia, extortion and aggravated aiding and abetting. Among the recipients of the arrest order also the super boss Matteo Messina Denaro fugitive for 28 years still recognized as the only real boss of Cosa Nostra.



The names of the suspects
The suspects during the Xydi anti-mafia operation they are: the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, known as U Sicccu, 58 years old Castelvetrano (Tp);
Giuseppe Falsone, 50 years old, Campobello di Licata (Ag);
Giancarlo Bugea, 50 years old, Palermo; Luigi Boncori, 68 years old, Ravanusa (Ag); Luigi Carmina, 57 years old Caltanissetta; Simone Castello, 71 years old, Villabate (Pa); Antonino Chiazza, 51 years old, Agrigento; Diego Emanuele Cigna, 21 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Giuseppe D'Andrea, 49 years old, Agrigento; Calogero Di Caro, 74 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Pietro Fazio, 48 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Gianfranco Roberto Gaetani, 53 years old, Naro (Ag); Antonio Gallea, 63 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Giuseppe Giuliana, 55, France; Gaetano Lombardo, 64 years old, Ravanusa (Ag); Gregorio Lombardo, 66 years old, Favara (Ag); Antonino Oliveri, 36 years old Canicattì (Ag); Calogero Paceco, 56 years old, Naro (Ag); Giuseppe Pirrera, 61 years old, Favara (Ag); Filippo Pitruzzella, 60 years old, Campobello di Licata (Ag); Angela Porcella, 50 years old, Agrigento; Santo Rinallo. 60 years old, Canicattì (Ag); Giuseppe Sicilia, 41 years old Agrigento.

Nicolino Grande Aracri has been declared not credible nor trustworthy, his testimony not leading anywhere, by the Antimafia prosecutors; there are even doubts that his collaboration could actually be a criminal plan in itself.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...rande-aracri-e-un-pentito-inattendibile/

He still has his lawyer, i knew there was something odd about this. It was probably a plan all along , maybe to feed them false information or conflicting information.

The forgotten fugitive. Edgardo Greco, 56, from Cosenza, has to serve a life sentence for double murder. Since 2006, however, he has managed to escape the police force. He is the last important Calabrian “fugitive” left in circulation: some believe he is hiding in Germany, other “sources” indicate that he is well camouflaged in Calabria. Strangely, his name does not appear among those of the most dangerous fugitives although for three decades he has managed to evade searches.

I thought the same - he probably wanted to say something about someone else

Many people in power are relieved now Don Nicolino would have hurt them.

Cosa Nostra is still number one in Sicily but Stidda is rebuilding and they had few turncoats five I think.

Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri in a recent interview spoke about the tax havens in which the mafias have been pouring their illicit capital for years, pointing out that "The real tax havens today are Austria, Holland, the City of London, the United States ... A criminal has an easy game to deposit 5 million euros in a branch in the Cayman Islands, then take a flight to New York and get a $ 500,000 credit line from the local branch of the same bank. And it is not that this is not known: investigations by the American judiciary have shown it. Nonetheless, do you think any executives ended up in jail? They limited themselves to fining the banks involved with a penalty equal to 2% of the laundered sum ”.

'Ndrangheta fugitive caught
Agostino Papaianni, 70, 'in good shape thanks to home gym'

(ANSA) - CATANZARO, JUN 15 - Italian police on Tuesday captured an 'Ndrangheta boss who had evaded capture in a big round up of Calabrian mafia members in the Vibo Valentia area of the southern Italian region in December 2019.
Police said Agostino Papaianni, 70, was in good physical shape having been using a small gym he had in his hideout.
Papaianni is also wanted in the Black Money laundering probe, for mafia association, police said.
His hideout was in an "impervious" hilly area surrounded by narrow alleyways, a green area and a gully, police told a press conference.
He had started renting it with false documents in April, police said.
Papaianni did not resist arrest and told police who he was.
He is one of the historic clan leaders in the Vibo area, police said. (ANSA).

Agostino Papaianni was hiding in a B & B in the Janò district of Catanzaro LOL, the owner of the apartment had a photo of an identity document that was found to be false. Papaianni was very trusted by superboss Luigi Mancuso.

The Catanzaro DDA asked for the indictment of 78 people involved in the "Low profile" investigation conducted against the 'Ndrangheta clans of the Crotone area and the network of interests interwoven with politicians, entrepreneurs, public administrators.

Among the people for whom the trial was requested is the regional councilor for the budget Francesco Talarico, of the UDC, accused of criminal association aggravated by the mafia method and political-mafia electoral exchange. On the other hand, there is no UDC leader Lorenzo Cesa , reached last May by a notice of conclusion of investigations on charges of criminal association aggravated by the mafia method.

The Prosecutors led by Nicola Gratteri asked for the indictment, among others, the former president of Confindustria Giovani of Crotone Glenda Giglio, for the notary of Catanzaro Rocco Guglielmo, for the former municipal councilor of Catanzaro Tommaso Brutto, and for the former financier Ercole D'Alessandro. Talarico, according to the indictment, as a candidate in the 2018 political elections, would have offered his support, "in exchange for a substantial package of votes, to introduce two entrepreneurs into national political-institutional environments", also presented to Cesa.

In addition, Talarico is also charged with the crime of political-mafia electoral exchange always in relation to the
candidacy for the 2018 policies. On that occasion, for the accusation, he met with some Reggio representatives of the entrepreneur Antonio Gallo - considered entrepreneur reference point of the Crotonese clans - "admittedly close to former senator Antonio Caridi", "in particular Natale Errigo (also investigated, ed) -
related to members of the De Stefano-Tegano di Archi clan".

“European 'ndrangheta connection”, new confirmation of the strength of the clans
by Rocco Muscari - June 21, 2021
The motivations of the gup of Reggio who inflicted 34 sentences. Business from San Luca to Northern Europe, drugs remain the main business
Reggio, Chronicle
"The investigation has revealed, in particular, once again how organized crime in the Ionian belt of the province of Reggio manages, in Italy and abroad (Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands), consistent and lucrative illicit business, making use of a dense network of associates constituted, for the most part, by the members of the same families of 'Ndrangheta ». This is what the gup of Reggio Calabria Vincenzo Quaranta writes in the reasons for the sentence of the maxi-trial, which took place with the abbreviated procedure, born from the investigations called "European 'ndrangheta connection - Pollino", which ended last November with 34 convictions for a total of 411 years of imprisonment and 8 acquittals confirming the accusatory system represented by the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor,
The motivation highlights that "the investigations made it possible to ascertain the current operation of the Pelle-Vottari clan, historically hegemonic in the territory of San Luca, which thanks to the joint interests with other associations attributable to the Jonic Mandamento of the 'Ndrangheta, and with the contribution also of Camorra clans operating in Campania, makes international drug trafficking its main criminal activity, a source of very high illicit income, to be laundered in economic activities, both in Italy and abroad ».

Read the full article on the print edition of Gazzetta del Sud - Calabria

THE HEARING
'Ndrangheta massacre, the repentant: "Paolo De Stefano had to have money from" Milano 2 ""
In Fiume's testimony, the plots behind the Lombard contracts that he reported to Silvio Berlusconi. Graviano: "He realized the project also thanks to the money of the 'Ndrangheta"
Published on: 06/24/2021 - 11:22

REGGIO CALABRIA The boss Paolo De Stefano «must have had money from“ Milano 2 ”, which had invested it at the time of Bontate». This is what the repentant Nino Fiume, former killer of the De Stefano family claims, has been a collaborator of justice since 2002 and has made statements in the 'Ndrangheta massacre trial. This was reported by ilfattoquotidiano which specifies how the circumstances reported by him are for the time being unsubstantiated. Also in the newspaper, last June 23, he reported the news of the interrogation of Giovanni Brusca, a collaborator of justice formerly belonging to the Cosa Nostra, who has recently returned to freedom.
Fiume's statements are in some way linked to those of the boss Giuseppe Graviano, who in 2020, again in the same process, had spoken of the money that his grandfather would have given to the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, for the first construction sites of the Milanese work, in the 70s.
Also in this case there is no evidence on the declarations, if not a further circumstance.
According to the reconstruction offered to the judges by the repentant Fiume, the “Milano 2” project was allegedly carried out by Berlusconi also thanks to the money of the 'Ndrangheta and in particular of the De Stefano clan of Reggio Calabria.
In July 2020, in the Reggio line of 'Ndrangheta massacre, the sentence to life imprisonment was reached for Giuseppe Graviano and Rocco Santo Filippone, accused of the double murder of the Carabinieri Fava and Garofalo, in 1994.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-stefano-doveva-avere-soldi-da-milano-2/

Disney is making a documentary on the 'Ndrangheta for it's international streaming service Star.

Do you know when its going to be out ?

Outside of Calabria itself, which other regions of Italy have heavy Ndrangheta presence? I know they have operations in many cities but not sure if they have branches/territories outside their Clabarian hometown. If so do the cells operate independently from Calabria or are they usually affiliated with a certain Ndrina? thanks.

In Italy they all answer to Calabria. 'Ndrangheta is only criminal organization that is present on every continent, they are extremely powerful in Canada & Australia. They also have strong presence in Germany and Switzerland. In Germany they gained a lot of heat after Duisburg massacre.

'Ndrangheta has biggest presence in Rome, they are very powerful there , Sicilians also have huge presence in Rome , one of most powerful organized crime figures in Rome is Sicilian , Giovanni "The Billionaire" De Carlo.