Since the Mafia Capitale trial just wrapped up ( https://www.ft.com/content/4cf9b6de-6d5f-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa ) , I thought it would be appropriate to kick off a thread about the state of the Roman organized crime scene in 2017 .

So which groups currently occupy the top shelf in the Roman OC scene ? Has the OC landscape changed much since this article ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...r-10473773.html ) came out ?

Also is it possible that some of the homegrown crime syndicates in Rome have better political connections than ( say ) their Southern Italian counterparts ? I mean quite a few former members of the Magliana gang are still said to be involved in OC activity and it's said that they had good links with various secret service agencies during their heyday .

Few members from magliana are still around,they did have connections with secret service mostly people from P2,they did dirty work for them.

One of the top people in Rome is Sicilian,i forgot his name.I have no idea why there is no Sicilian Mafia on this map.'Ndrangheta has biggest presence in Rome followed by Camorra,Sicilian Mafia has bigger presence in Milan.

Strax, Giovanni De Carlo aka The Billionaire.

I was expecting you are going to know,thanks a lot!

In the Rome beach town Ostia you have cosa nostra families like Fasciani, D’Agati and Triassi who are related to Cun trera-Caruana. Roma also has some powerful gypsy clans like Casamonica, Di Silvio, Di Gugliemo, Di Rocco, Spada and Spinelli.

The Casamonicas are gypsies ? Interesting I thought they were of Abruzzese origin ( if my memory serves correct ) .

Also is Massimo Carminati really such a living legend ? I mean I did a bit of reading on him and it's alleged that he had connections with the CIA and also that he was the main liaison between the Magliana gang and the Italian secret services .

Yet at the same time one gets the feeling that the fellow is just a former terrorist associate of the Magliana gang who grew a bit big for his boots . Then again he received a ( some say ) light sentence for the Mafia Capitale affair so I suppose his alleged mojo may have come into play .

You're right, they arrived from Pescara in the Capital in the 70s. But they are of Sinti origin. According to police they have about 1000 members, allies are the 'Ndrangheta and Casalesi.

It's difficult to say who controls OC in Rome, because it's an open city. Carminati is described as the dominus of the most profitable area, the center and the good neighborhoods of North Rome. They say that his strength would be above all in the ability to solve problems. His name is whispered with fear across the underworld.

BTW I have high expectations of Suburra on Netflix, director Stefano Sollima is also responsibe for Gomorrah.

Wow did not know about this one,thanks a lot for info!

Btw: you should watch "Romanzo criminale – La serie" if you didn't its amazing series about magliana,same director.

Are those ex Magliana gang members that are still around members of criminal organizations or are they just freelancers ? Also are there any homegrown non Roma/immigrant crime groups in Rome ?

banda della magliana doesn't exist anymore there are ex members still active but the gan gone at the beginning of the 1990s, the crime in rome is dominated by southern italian mafias (cosa nostra, ndrangheta, camorra) and by gypsy clans (casamonica, spada and others)
there are some other independent gang like the cordaro's, but they are sicilians, not from rome

Same goes for whole North Italy,dominated by south italian mafias,some cities have their homegrown gangs but they get eliminated by police in few years,or get sucked in by south italian mafia groups

yes, but in north italy there are several foreign gangs too

Yeah. Nigerian, Chinese, Russian, Albanian and Romanian groups are all operating in Rome.

There's also a new film about Mafia Capitale by Massimo Scaglione.

Roma non vuole i capi

A 39-year-old man, Alberto Ianna, was shot dead last night on the balcony of a condominium in the Casal Bruciato area in Rome. The man would have a record for drugs. There could be a settlement of accounts behind the murder, it seems that the man was in the company of a woman. The woman, heard by the investigators, said she did not remember the moments of the ambush.

Most gypsies are criminals.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...rome-beachside-mafia-blitz-idUSKBN1FE16U

Italian police arrest 31 in Rome beachside mafia blitz

Carminati trial asked in 'Middle World' (3)
Also Il Tempo editor Chiocci, Mokbel, 18 others

(ANSA) - Rome, January 24 - Rome prosecutors on Wednesday requested the indictment of former rightist militant and ex-gangster Massimo Carminati, former rightist Gennaro Mokbel and rightwing Il Tempo newspaper editor Gian Marco Chiocci in the third tranche of a probe into political-business racketeering in the Italian capital dubbed 'Middle World'. Another 18 indictment requests were also made. Chiocci is accused of aiding and abetting, judicial sources said.
The 21 defendants are not accused of mafia association - a charge that was also dropped in the main tranche of the case which reached a first verdict last summer.
The main part of a probe reached verdicts on July 20.
The case was first dubbed 'Capital Mafia' but then renamed, after mafia charges were dropped, after Carminati's nickname for the demi-monde he operated in.
The former gangster and ex-member of the NAR right-wing terrorist group was found guilty by a Rome court over allegations he was part of an organisation that muscled in on city contracts worth millions.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Another ringleader of the so-called Capital Mafia, leftwing cooperatives chief Salvatore Buzzi, got 19 years.
The accusation of mafia association was scrubbed for 19 of the 46 defendants in the so-called Capital Mafia case, including ringleaders Carminati and Buzzi, by the ruling.
Carminati said he was "satisfied" with the 20-year sentence.
Carminati did not get a longer term, 28 years, because the charge of mafia association was scrubbed.
Carminati said "now they must immediately remove me from 41 bis", referring to the tough prison regime for mafiosi.
Carminati's lawyer Giosue' Naso said the judges said "the mafia doesn't exist in Rome, as we've been saying for 30 months".
He said that, despite this, the verdicts were "absurdly and unusually severe".
He said Rome Chief Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone was "certainly the beaten one", adding "I don't know if there are any winners".
Capital Mafia prosecutor Paolo Ielo said after securing a total of 250 years in jail for the defendants that "sentences must be respected" even though judges scrubbed the charge of mafia association and left only simple conspiracy in their sentences.
"The judges turned us down on some points but sentences must be respected," he said, adding "we will wait for the explanation of the verdict".
Former Rome migrants panel chief Luca Odevaine got six and a half years while former Rome council assembly chair Mirko Coratti of ex-premier Matteo Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party got six years.
The former Rome city council whip for three-time former premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's now-defunct People of Freedom party, Luca Gramazio, got 11 years.
Buzzi's wife and secretary were also found guilty in the trial.
The wife, Alessandra Garrone, got 13 and a half years for helping her husband commit his crimes.
The secretary, Nadia Cerrito, who kept Buzzi's books, received a five-year sentence.
Three of the 46 defendants were acquitted.
They were Rocco Rotolo and Salvatore Ruggiero, for whom prosecutors asked 16 years in jail, and the former general manager of waste and rubbish company AMA, Giovanni Fiscon, for whom a five-year term was asked.
Prosecutors said Rotolo and Ruggiero had acted as go-betweens between Capital Mafia ringleaders and the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi was in court for the reading out of the sentences. The city is a civil plaintiff.
"Today is a victory for Rome's citizens," she said.
Carminati and Buzzi were caught on a wiretap saying they could make more out of contracts for Roma and migrant camps than they could by dealing drugs.
The contracts the gang illicitly obtained also included those for public transport and the upkeep of the city's green areas.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...c75b598-111f-4dd2-9803-78b8e51a1a0b.html

The boss and brother of the guy who headbutted the reporter, came one time to a restaurant with a flame-thrower saying "this isn't threatening you, it's going to kill you".

Yes he is a "living legend". If you want unterstand why. You need read about Stay Behind operation and Gladio in Italy. So he was directly involved. He know alot dirty secrets.
Rome is a hot place. So much money, nobody can't controll everything. I'm sure Clan Casamonica are powerfull but this guy don't have this "white collar " influence like Carminati or some Sicilians.

The Sinti (Gipsy) clan Di Silvio brought votes to Tripodi, the leader of the Lega Nord in the region. 25 arrests!

http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...elle_carte_del_clan_di_silivo-198837349/

Rome mafia ever more like Sicily, Calabria, Campania say DIA
'MO like counterparts Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, Camorra'

(ANSA) - Rome, July 18 - Rome's mafias are ever more like the Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Campania and the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria, according to a new report from the National Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate. The six-monthly report, issued the day after a major mafia bust in the capital against the Casamonica clan which was allied to the 'Ndrangheta for drug pushing, said "organisations similar for MOs to mafia associations like those in Sicily, Calabria and Campania are ever more evident in Rome".
In some areas of the capital there are criminal groups which, "based on close family ties, ever more show the modus operandi of groups of mafia associations", the report said.
Following the mass arrest of members of the family heavily involved in organized crime on Tuesday, a Rome prosecutor warned that the mafia is very powerful in the Italian capital. Calling Rome mafia territory "is not an exaggeration", prosecutor Michele Prestipino said in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera. "I do not think that Rome is comparable to Palermo, Reggio Calabria or Naples, since here groups using mafia methods interact with others that are not involved in the mafia. The main problem here is still corruption, which in other locations is secondary to traditional mafias. However, we see a code of silence and non-collaboration from the victims of crimes," he stressed. "Neither here nor in Milan are people lining up to report intimidation and abuse of power." The Casamonica family-based mafia group, which was targeted by Tuesday's operation in which over 30 were arrested "is a galaxy" that is more frightening than traditional clans, he said. "They are different groups bonded together by blood ties that stand out for their iron-clad control of 'their' territory," he said, "and have become one of the most frightening criminal realities of the city." He stressed that several types of criminal activities were involved.
Italian police on Tuesday made 31 arrest as they hit the Casamonica Roman crime family, saying it had links with the 'Ndrangheta for drug trafficking.
Six people are missing and presumed to be on the run, police said.
The arrests were made in the Italian capital and in the provinces of Reggio Calabria and Cosenza in Calabria, police said.
The suspects are accused of creating an organisation dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion and loan sharking, all aggravated by using mafia methods.
Among those arrested is Domenico Spada of the eponymous Rome and Ostia crime family, aka Vulcano and a former boxing champion.
"They didn't need to use violence, the Casamonica name was enough," said anti-mafia prosecutor Michele Prestipino.
Locales in Rome including a disco in Testaccio and a restaurant near the Pantheon were sequestered.
Searches turned up 50,000 euros in cash, current accounts, cars and dozens of luxury watches.
The so-called 'Romanina clan', from the eastern district of the Italian capital, held sway over criminal activity in much of Rome, investigators said.
Because of their Roma and Traveller origins, they were also known as the Gypsies.
The clan was bust wide open, police said, thanks to the State's evidence of 31-year-old Debora Cerroni, the partner of Massimiliano Casamonica, brother of clan chieftain Giuseppe Casamonica.
Never accepted by the clan, she is now under police protection, investigators said.
The second crucial informant is a Calabria-born man who has lived in Rome for many years.
He is said to have managed drugs operations for the Casamonicas.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi said "the Carabinieri operation went very well, my compliments".
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said "we are winning against organised crime".
Defence Undersecretary Angelo Tofalo said "I'd like to thank the Carabinieri for a laudable operation at the end of a probe that started in 2015".
The Casamonicas have long been the most powerful mafia-style group in Rome and there was a scandal three summers ago when one clan boss had a Godfather-like funeral complete with music from the iconic film and rose petals dropped onto a horse-drawn hearse from a helicopter.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...fe71d90-b032-4630-ae84-29096f5b5025.html

Giacomo Cascalisci, boss of the 'Cosa Nostra Tiburtina' took his own life killing himself in the room of the detaining department of the Molinette hospital in Turin, where he was hospitalized. Cascalisci arrested with a maxiblitz in March and in prison in Rome, was in the Turin hospital since Saturday for a series of treatments. He had a long criminal record, arrested the first time in 1982 for " criminal association ". Over the decades the 53-year-old from Tivoli has accumulated other penalties for crimes such as extortion, theft, robbery, attempted voluntary homicide, kidnapping for robbery, personal injury, evasion, stolen goods and especially drug dealing.
According to what was ascertained by the investigations of the Carabinieri, Cascalisci was the only point of reference for the entire criminal association of Tiburtino.

Yup I know about Gladio and all , but information about Carminati's specific role in it is rather scarce . Or at least I haven't been able to dig up much in the way of English language articles and such .

Cosa Nostra Tiburtina ready to reorganize, blitz in Tivoli and Guidonia. Nine arrests ! The Carabinieri operation follows the 39 arrests carried out last March at the gates of the capital.

The Guardia di Finanza, at the disposal of the judges of the fourth criminal section of the Court of Appeal of Rome, has carried out the confiscation of assets against Ernesto Diotallevi.
The confiscation concerned property, works of art, bank deposits, life insurance policies, company shares, share capital and corporate assets of 8 companies, operating in the field of the sale of real estate, the construction of boats, the sale of electricity, maritime transport and holding companies for an estimated total of about 25 million.
In all, there are 43 real estate units seized between Rome, Gradara, in the province of Pesaro-Urbino and Olbia. Among these, a penthouse a few steps from the Trevi Fountain, a villa on the Isola di Cavallo, in Corsica, and a tourist complex, in Sardinia.
The Court of Appeals recognizes the links with organized crime mafia, both Roman and Sicilian (Cosa Nostra) and allows the acquisition of significant assets, including a prestigious property in Fontana di Trevi, companies, bathing establishments.

Giancarlo Massidda (61), among the 100 most dangerous fugitives, was arrested in Buenos Aires. Massidda is considered the promoter of a criminal association active in Lazio, also between Anzio and Aprilia, and dedicated to the importation of large quantities of cocaine. The man was wanted internationally because he has toserve a sentence of 23 years, 9 months and 10 days of imprisonment.

Ostia port owner 0.5 bn assets seized
Mauro Balini's property confiscated

(ANSA) - Rome, January 10 - Italian police on Thursday seized more than half a billion euros in assets belonging to the owner of Ostia's tourist marina, Mauro Balini.
Balini was arrested in 2015 for fraudulent bankruptcy, money laundering and other offences.
Balini also owns two bathing establishments, "Hakuna Matata" and "Plinius", which were also confiscated.

Man shot outside Rome nursery school
Victim is in a serious condition, had dropped off children

(ANSA) - Rome, January 10 - A man was shot outside a nursery school in Rome's Magliana district at around 8:50 on Thursday, sources said. The victim had just dropped off his children and gotten into his car when he was shot by an assailant on a scooter, the sources said.
He was hit several times in the head and has been taken to hospital in a serious condition, according to the sources.
The man reportedly has a criminal record.

It concerns the 34-year-old Andrea Gioacchini . He is fighting for his life. His partner suffered less serious injuries.
On Twitter, Roman mayor Virgina Raggi expressed her dismay at the shooting. She called Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to make his promises by making more blue on the streets.

According to the Italian media, Gioacchini has a criminal past for drug transport, arms trade and extortion. Recently he was involved in a kidnapping and extortion case in which the ex-wife of AS Roma football player Daniele De Rossi - Tamara Pisnoli - was arrested and convicted. A businessman was taken from his home and 200,000 euros was demanded.

A spokesman for the police found that he had many enemies.

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=5B2w32qtoC4[/video]

Gioacchini died from his injuries. there is a suspect ! He is the brother of a historical leader of the Banda della Magliana.

New blow to the Casamonica Clan . From the first light of dawn, about 150 Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Rome are engaged between Rome and the Province, as well as in various regions of Italy, to carry out 23 precautionary measures.

The arrests were carried out against as many individuals belonging to the Casamonica , Spada and Di Silvio families, including 7 women, held responsible in competition with each other and with different roles, of extortion, usury, fictitious heading of goods, drug dealing and other crimes, for the most part committed with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method.

The investigations are the continuation of the "Gramigna" operation which, last summer, already involved 37 members of the Casamonica clan.

Fabrizio Piscitelli, 53, a prominent figure of the Lazio ultras known as Diabolik, was killed in an ambush. The historical ultrà chief was shot in the back of his head at close range in a park in the Tuscolana area.
Three years ago police had confiscated two million euro in Piscitelli's assets. A provision that followed the arrest of Diabolik because he was considered a promoter and financier of an international traffic of drugs.

Feared leader of Lazio Ultras football hooligan firm shot dead in ‘execution-style assassination’ in Rome

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/9677001/lazio-ultras-gang-leader-shot-rome/

Salvatore Nicitra get arrested.

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Salvatore-Nicitra

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Ex-Magliana Gang boss among 38 arrested
Salvatore Nicitra ran gambling ops in northern Rome say cops

(ANSA) - Rome, February 11 - A jailed former boss in the notorious Rome criminal organisation the Magliana Gang was among 38 people served arrest warrants in Italy, Spain and Austria Tuesday on charges of murder, racketeering and other gang-related offences.
Sicilian-born Salvatore Nicitra, 68, who has been in jail for two years for other mafia crimes, had taken over gambling operations in northern Rome by using mafia methods over the years since the Gang was busted, police said.
Police also said they had solved five cold cases, a four murders and an attempted murder, dating back to the 1980s with the operation.
In Italy, the arrests too place in Rome, Viterbo, Terni, Padua and Lecce.
"I'm a boss, I'll put the gambling machines and slot machines wherever I want," Nicitra was caught saying in a police intercept.
Police said Nicitra was "the king of Roma Nord".
In 1993, while Nictra was in jail on mafia charges, his brother and 11-year-old son disappeared without trace.
Their bodies have never been found.
In the operation, police also seized property worth some 15 million euros.
Nicitra was said to be a top aide to Magliana Gang kingpin and drug trafficker Enrico De Pedis aka Renatino, handling the gang's illegal gambling operations. "I had the most important gambling dens in Rome and the whole of Italy," he was also caught saying.
"You used to have to lower your head when you talked to me".
Carabinieri said: "Nicitra's criminal charisma was recognised and respected by all". Prosecutor Michele Prestipino said Nicitra "has always been a key man in the dynamics of the Rome gang scene".
The Magliana Gang was an infamous and extremely violent Rome group of the 1970s that was the subject of Michele Placido's 2005 movie Romanzo Criminale and a spin-off TV series of the same name. Names after the Rome district where it was set up, the magliana Gang had links to Italy's three main mafias 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and Camorra and has also been linked to rightist terrorist bombings and murders to destabilise Italy in the 'Years of Lead' of leftist and rightist terror in the 1970s and 80s.
Conspiracy theorists have also linked it to other murky crimes including the killing of mud-raking journalist Mino Pecorelli, the killing of God's Banker Roberto Calvi, and the disappearance of a 15-year-old Vatican resident, Emanuela Orelandi.

Salvatore Casamonica, of the notorious gypsy family, and lawyer Lucia Gargano were arrested last Friday.
According to the accusation the two, in competition with each other and with Fabrizio Piscitelli alias "Diabolik" - the ultrà chief killed on August 7, 2019 - contributed concretely to the improvement of an agreement aimed at establishing peace among the mafia clan Spada and another criminal group operating in Ostia headed by Marco Esposito called "Poodle".
According to the magistrate Gargano "Played the fundamental role of trait d'union between Carmine Spada called Romoletto and Fabrizio Piscitelli (killed on August 7 in Rome), who could not meet because the former was subject to an obligation to stay in the municipality of Rome and the latter under surveillance special with obligation to stay in Grottaferrata ".

Twenty alleged members of a notorious Italian crime family were arrested after two embittered ex-wives gave information to the authorities. A special taskforce of 150 Italian police seized assets worth €20 million from the Casamonica criminal clan in Rome, famed for their lavish lifestyles.

Massimo Carminati is free.



https://www.news1.news/en/2020/06/m...rm-of-pre-trial-detention-la-stampa.html

About Salvatore Nicitra international links with Austria and spain.

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Mafia Capitale

Salvatore Buzzi,and Luca Gramazio are free too. Both was released from prison last week.

Italy: Fugitive Caught As He Returns For Daughter's Bday
Fri 28th May 2021 | 01:50 PM

Rome, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th May, 2021 ) :An Italian drug trafficker who had escaped arrest for 15 years was finally caught after he returned home for the birthday of his beloved daughter, police said Friday.

David Cittadini, 49, is due to serve a sentence of 13 years and four months for criminal association and international drug trafficking.

Police said in a statement they knew he lived in Spain, but also that he stayed in touch with his family in Rome, "particularly his mother and daughter, to whom he is very attached." So, in the run-up to the daughter's 23rd birthday, plainclothes policemen stationed "for days" outside the mother's apartment block, until they saw their man go in.

Disguised as delivery people, the officers stormed the apartment and found Cittadini and the forged identity card he used to fly in from Barcelona under a fake name.

The fugitive was arrested while trying to hide in the bedroom, police added.

In 2006, Italian authorities ordered the arrest of Cittadini and 26 other suspects following an investigation by anti-Mafia prosecutors and special operations police.

According to prosecutors, Cittadini played a leading role in a drug smuggling ring that supplied Rome dealers, sourcing cocaine and hashish from South America and Morocco.

David Cittadini I think he's of Jewish Italian origin.

A little old but......
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NAPLES
9 October 2020 9:35
The drug of Rome managed by the "Orlando-Nuvoletta" Camorra clan of Marano
The drug dealing in the capital, especially cocaine and hashish, managed by a five-person association that was headed by the Orlando-Nuvoletta clan of Marano in Naples. The carabinieri also ascertained that on several occasions prominent members of the clan went to Rome in person to ascertain the "work" of the group.
Curated by Giuseppe Cozzolino



Drug dealing in the capital run by the "Orlando-Nuvoletta" clan of Marano di Napoli: five pre-trial detention orders carried out at dawn today by the carabinieri, all towards suspects for various reasons for association aimed at trafficking of drugs aggravated by the mafia method and purpose, as well as mafia-type association. The five were reached this morning by the respective precautionary custody orders issued by the GIP of the Naples Court at the request of the prosecutor of the Neapolitan Anti-Mafia District Directorate.


According to what was reconstructed by the investigators, the five were based in Marano di Napoli but operated permanently in Rome, under the direct and constant control of the Orlando-Nuvoletta clan, which has its stronghold in the Marano area. Several elements considered prominent in the clan would have traveled to the capital to "verify" the state of the drug trafficking that the group managed on the spot. Cocaine and hashish were the main drugs that the five dealt with, who had also prepared a series of technological "devices" to avoid being discovered by the police: precautions that were not enough for them.

In another operation, which also took place this morning, Lorenzo Nuvoletta, son of the homonymous boss Ciro killed in 1984, was involved, for completely different facts: the man is in fact suspected of fraudulent transfer of values, use of money, goods o utility of illicit origin, as well as self-laundering. Lorenzo Nuvoletta, the carabinieri explained, although he too reached this morning by a precautionary custody order, is in no way linked to the story of drug trafficking with the capital.

Lorenzo Nuvoletta would instead be the real owner of a car dealership in Villaricca, fictitiously registered instead to two other people (one of whom is linked to him by family ties). Lorenzo himself would have personally supervised the internal and external works of the structure, also taking care of the vehicles to be purchased and resold. In addition to the precautionary custody for Lorenzo Nuvoletta, notified this morning, the carabinieri also provided for the preventive seizure of 100% of the licensee's shares.

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Arrests overnight in Marano, drugs sold in front of the church and on the phone
Pizzo is a supermarket for "the friends of San Giovanni a Teduccio", who has been extorted by the clan.....

It went from Magliana gang... to Caruana Cuntreras, to the Fasciani and Casamonica clans, to the Nuvolettas, to.....?


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Vito Triassi, the "colonel" of the Caruana-Cuntrera clan, rival of the Spada, died in Tenerife
Vito Triassi, the "colonel" of the Caruana-Cuntrera clan died in Tenerife
by Emilio Orlando

Monday 4th February 2019 Last updated 15:29


A heart attack killed Vito Triassi, one of the bosses who made good and bad weather on the Roman coast. The man was in Tenerife, Spain, when he fell ill and collapsed to the ground while he was near his home. The homonymous clan controlled the racket of beaches, kiosks and some establishments in Ostia together with drug trafficking. Together with his brother Vincenzo Triassi he was the colonel of the historic Caruana-Cuntrera mafia family of Siculiana in the province of Agrigento.






The mafia infiltration of the Sicilian clan was carried out in Ostia after the "colonization" of the Banda della Magliana. Vito and Vincenzo Triassi were sent to Ostia to stay forced, but they continued their criminal activity which had begun in Sicily, with the control of almost all of the economic activities on the Roman coast.
The drug and arms trafficking was managed by the historic Caruana-Cuntrera di Siculiana mafia family. According to investigations by the district anti-mafia directorate, the Triassi family dealt with drug and arms trafficking that also came from the Balkans. They were linked to the Fasciani clan and had close relations with the survivors of the Banda della Magliana.

In May 2006 Triassi had already been kicked in Ostia , under his home in the area of ​​the Cape Verde Islands. Not even a year after a new attack. It was September 20, 2007 in Casal Palocco, on the Roman coast, when two people shot him. He was admitted to the hospital in Ostia and underwent surgery. And he got away with it on this occasion too. In 2011, however, his brother Vincenzo was ambushed. And since then the judicial problems for the clan also began.
The motive for the attack lay in the friction of two criminal groups that controlled Ostia for the wrongdoing. The last blitz that saw the Triassi in handcuffs was the anti-crime operation baptized by the investigators "Maverick" which beheaded the clan between Lazio and Sicily with forty-two arrests. Yesterday it was a heart attack that took his life.

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Murder Fabrizio Piscitelli, the alleged killer of Diabolik arrested: the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method disputed

https://www.italy24news.com/local/304806.html

leandro bennato, a gangster from the neighborhood of casalotti is the instigator of piscitelli's murder and the albanian killed in torvajanica on the beach

The drug war in Rome, maxi blitz: 27 arrests
The carabinieri dismantled two Italian-Albanian gangs. One of the two chiefs was a friend of Piscitelli

Maxi anti-drug blitz in Rome where, at dawn today, January 18, the carabinieri arrested 27 people . The military thus carried out an order, issued by the magistrate of the court of Rome at the request of the district anti-mafia management of the Rome prosecutor's office.

The carabinieri of the investigative nucleus of Rome and Frascati have reconstructed, in detail, the criminal events of two Italo-Albanian groups (the head of one of the two was close to Fabrizio Piscitelli), in conflict with each other.

The two groups, according to the investigations, were equipped with a solid organizational structure and with the availability of weapons and ready to fire in case of need. Both groups are also permanently engaged in the sale of large quantities of cocaine and hashish destined for the most flourishing drug dealing centers in the capital.

The 27 people are seriously suspected, for various reasons, of an association aimed at drug trafficking aggravated by the mafia method, sale and possession for the purpose of dealing, extortion, damage following fire, possession and carrying in a public place of firearms .

Giuseppe Molisso ordered the execution of Albanian Selavdi Shelaj in 2020 in Rome

https://www.ocnal.com/2022/08/giuseppe-molisso-ordered-execution-of.html

There seems to be a lot of Sicilian Mafia, Ndrangheta and Camorra involvement in Rome.
The Sinti clans seem to be the most prominent "local" type of organized crime (even though their origins are in Abruzzo), but law enforcement has been coming down on them hard.

Banda della Magliana is also stlll around although not as powerful as they used to be.

i think there are other gangs based in some neighborhoods on the same level of Casamonica and Spada sinti clans as the Cordaro's in Tor Bella Monaca or the Gambacurta's and Cascalisci's; there are also members of the Banda della Magliana still active although the gang was dismantled in the 1990s

The Sicilian Giovanni De Carlo known as "Giovannone" is one of top figures. Believed to be close to "il Cecato" and the Diotallevi family.

All the crews have representation up in the northern cities.

The Albanian gangster who tried to conquer Rome in 10 months

https://www.spamchronicles.com/the-albanian-gangster-who-tried-to-conquer-rome-in-10-months/

Elvis Demce is the boss of an italo-albanian gang based in Velletri near Rome, he worked for Piscitelli and when he was murdered he started his own emergent gang

Rome "laboratory" for organized crime: the 'Ndrangheta dictates the dynamics
This is what emerges from the VI and VII "Mafias in Lazio" Report, promoted by the Region and presented today at the Rome Chamber of Commerce

https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news...-selling-the-ndrangheta-called-dynamics/

Italian police arrest mafia member over slain sex workers
Two Chinese and a Colombian were found stabbed in the upmarket Prati district

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Rome by night. Photo: Shutterstock

Italian police on Saturday arrested a mafia member suspected of killing two alleged Chinese prostitutes and a Colombian transgender sex worker in Rome, local media reported.

The bodies of the two Chinese women were discovered in a residential building in the upmarket Prati district on Thursday morning, while the body of the South American was found in an apartment in the same neighbourhood an hour later.

All three victims were stabbed, according to Italian media reports.

According to the Il Corriere della Sera daily, footage from surveillance cameras allowed police to identify 51-year-old Giandavide De Pau, who had been prosecuted in the past for drug trafficking and sexual assault.

The suspect is a member of a mafia clan headed by Michele Senese, who is currently serving a life sentence. De Pau is believed to have been one of Senese's closest collaborators, acting as his personal driver and handyman.

In 2008 and 2011, the suspect had also spent time in a psychiatric hospital.

It is unknown whether the suspected killer was carrying out a mafia hit or acting alone, possibly under the influence of drugs, which were found at home of some family members, where he is believed to have sought refuge after the police manhunt got underway, Il Corriere della Sera reported.

Several newspapers had warned of a possible "serial killer" in the Italian capital.

The body of one of the Chinese victims was spotted by a neighbour where it lay, naked on a landing. The woman, believed to be in her 40s, had suffered head and stomach injuries, the newspaper said.

When police entered her apartment, they found the body of the second Chinese woman.

Nobody in the building appeared to have heard the murders take place, according to residents.

"Everybody knew there was a house of ill repute here, I'd see people arriving at 2:00 am, 3:00 am," a woman who lived in the building told reporters.

The body of the Colombian, who was 65, was found by a friend, Il Corriere della Sera said.

Casamonica clan maxi-trial, Appeal ruling: “It’s the mafia”
The judges confirm the accusatory system by accepting the appeal of the prosecutor, recognizing the 416bis and excluding only the aggravating circumstance of being an armed association

https://www.italianpost.news/casamonica-clan-maxi-trial-appeal-ruling-its-the-mafia/

Ambush with gunshots: 48-year-old killed in front of the front door
The police are investigating. A settling of scores for drug dealing is suspected

Colded by five gunshots in front of the front door.The fatal ambush took place last night in Ostia , near Rome.The victim is Fabrizio Vallo , 48, already known to the police.
The raid was allegedly carried out by at least two people who then fled.
The investigations are entrusted to the carabinieri, who do not exclude that the murder is a settlement of accounts linked to drug dealing.

Antonio Da Ponte, with criminal records and linked with Camorra, was shot and wounded in Ostia

Another one is Ostia ? What's going on there.

A criminal feud for drug control has been going on in the area for months, characterized by arson attacks and gunshots against the doors of houses.
The killed Vallo earlier this month was very close to the gypsies.

The Antimafia, after the murder, is also focused on the Mafia families of the Triassi and Cuntrera - Caruana originally from Siculiana in the province of Agrigento and transplanted to the coast of Ostia since the 1980s.

it seems that the gypsy clans (Casamonica, Spada etc.) are losing ground after trials and convictions

Who was the most violent member of all time based in Italy? Any gory details anyone can share? Acid baths? Dismemberment? Skinning people alive?

Anyone know?

Filippo Marchese he ran what became known as the Room of Death, a small apartment along the Piazza Sant Erasmo. Victims were lured there to be murdered, usually by being garrotted. Their bodies were either dissolved in acid or chopped up and dumped out at sea. As many as 100 people were killed there during the Second Mafia War.

Filippo Marchese used to jerk off and snort cocaine while torturing them, he was pretty sick.

Antonio Da Ponte, a face familiar to the police sentenced to twenty years for murder and released from prison for a year and a half. His family, once linked to the Camorra, arrived in Ostia in the 1980s. His wife was shot in the buttock, he was in the abdomen. The two manage a restaurant together with their relatives in via di Castel Porziano. In the car with them, at the time of the ambush, there was also their less than one-year-old son, who was fortunately unharmed.
The conditions of the two would not be serious..Saturday's ambush was carried out by two people with full-face helmets aboard a scooter, near the former Dispensa restaurant.

The gypsies should not be underestimated though. The organization, of Sinti origin, accepts only family members and continues to be strong and feared despite the many arrests.
However, their activity is not limited only to Rome: they are present, with their ramifications, in many areas of the South.
In the latest report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (DIA), referring to the first half of 2021, alliances of the Casamonicas with Sicilian mafia families are mentioned.

The strange death of Stefano Sparti, son of Massimo, former Banda della Magliana

https://news.italy24.press/trends/345306.html

Yeah that is. Usually guys do that with hookers but with dead bodies? I can’t even wrap my head around that one.

After Abbatino was arrested in Venezuela he announced he would cooperate with Italian authorities. The major trial in 1995 is generally considered to have marked the end of the Banda della Magliana.

Abbatino testified at other trials.. He was given a new identity and lives in a secret location. In March 2016, however, state protection was taken away from him.

yes, according to the 'Ndrangheta turncoat Massimiliano Fazzari «When Vittorio Casamonica was alive, what he said was. If he said A it was A. His house was as important as the sanctuary of the Madonna di Polsi (in the municipality of San Luca, in the province of Reggio Calabria). In the Tuscolana area, especially near the alley of Porta Furba, the Casamonicas have a control comparable to that which a locale (a branch of the clan) of the 'Ndrangheta can have in a Calabrian town»

At the trials they also need interpreters because they speak Romani. You don't find many informers among gypsies.

Rome, a 46-year-old man was shot in the legs by two hooded men. The ambush at home: it's serious
FEBRUARY 22, 2023 - 20:01
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The victim's partner alerted 112. The man is in serious condition at the Umberto I polyclinic hospital

Shooting in Tufello , a village north-east of Rome, where a 46-year-old local man was shot in the legs. It happened shortly after 5pm this afternoon, February 22, and the victim was surprised by two men who broke into his home while he was sleeping. The house is located in via Monte Taburno. The authorities were alerted by the man's partner, with whom she lives, and who in these hours is telling the carabinieri her version of the facts. According to her statements, two men armed with balaclavas and pistols knocked directly on the door of the house. The woman thus opened, and they allegedly broke into the apartment and then headed right into the bedroom where the 46-year-old was sleeping. Two shots, in the right and left leg. Then the escape. On the spot, in addition to the mobile team and the scientific police, the 118 rescue personnel intervened and transported the victim to the Umberto I polyclinic with a red code. The man is already known to the authorities due to a drug record. The reasons for what happened are not yet known, nor are the identities of the two perpetrators, which the local police station is investigating. At the moment, no hypothesis is excluded.

the victim is Marco Canali, close to the Primavera clan based in the neighborhood of Tufello

I don't know much about them.

A collaborator of justice mentioned them "I know the whole reality of S. Basilio where some families manage 4 squares: in addition to the first managed by Cataldi, the second called La Lupa by the Ciminos, a third by the Primavera brothers and from their father, and the fourth from the son of a certain Fabio "il nero", whose name I don't remember"."

OCTOBER 21, 2022
The map of the mafias in Rome: how the clans share the drug dealing squares of the city
The map of the criminal presence in the Roman neighborhoods can be found in the latest edition of the Report on the Mafias of Lazio drawn up by the Observatory for Legality and Security of the Lazio Region.

A murder took place in Rome. The Romanian Mihai Stafan Roman (30) was shot several times as he walked down the street in the Ponte Mammolo area. According to initial information, the shots were fired from a passing motorbike. The police are investigating the incident.
At the moment, no hypothesis is excluded, including that of settling accounts.

Luigi Finizio, 51, with criminal records, was shot dead in the neighborhood of Tor Pignattara; his brother Girolamo is close to the Senese clan

Girolamo Finizio is the brother-in-law of Angelo Senese, brother of the boss Michele

Andrea Fiore, 54, with criminal records, was shot dead in the neighborhood of Torpignattara

A lot of murders in both Rome & Naples since beginning of 2023

the victim was a friend of the neapolitan Luigi Finizio, killed two weeks ago in the same area

All of this in Rome started when Sergio "Segione" Placidi fell from fifth floor apartment in the Magliana,Rome. He was probably thrown.

Police seize arsenal, arrest one in Rome
Part of probe into drug turf war

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 30 - Police in Rome found and seized an arsenal on Thursday night containing a dozen pistols and a rifle as part of an investigation into recent murders in the capital.
One man, an Italian, was arrested.
The operation took place in Pietralata in northeast Rome.
The seizure relates to a probe into four murders in the capital in just over a month that are thought to be connected to a drug turf war.
Most recently, on Sunday night Andrea Fiore, a 54-year-old Roman with a long criminal record, was hit in the chest by two shots in his home at Torpignattara in the east of the Italian capital.
Investigators say he was a close friend of Luigi Finizio, a Roman with links to the Neapolitan Camorra mafia who was shot dead by two men on a scooter at a petrol station in the same area on March 13.
The other murders, on March 10, and February 22, concerned a Neapolitan and a Romanian. (ANSA).

Battleground Rome: mafia gangs fight for control of cocaine trade
January 18 2023, 12.00am

The killers who banged on Andrea Fiore’s front door last Sunday and shot him in the chest had picked the time and place carefully.

The cottage, squeezed between a field and a railway line on the edge of Rome, was miles from streets crowded with tourists in the centre of the city. But the death of the small-time crook grabbed headlines the moment investigators linked it to at least five murders this year. They were all triggered by a struggle to grab a slice of Rome’s cocaine market after the arrest of some of the city’s biggest crime lords.

“The police have done a great job arresting bosses but inevitably it has left a power vacuum and there’s now a war

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...t-for-control-of-cocaine-trade-k2fpflsz9

You don't hear that much about the Fasciani clan abroad, but they seem to be powerful. They came to Rome from L'Aquila, but unlike the other big Abruzzo clans Casamonica and Spada they're allegedly not of gypsy origin. The way I read it they drove the Triassi - a Sicilian family close to Cuntrera-Caruana - out of business.

I suspect Carmine Fasciani was/is backed by cosa nostra.

Luan how about not posting shit with a pay wall, it's so frustrating.

Editorial board
April 14, 2023 4:24 pm

The Alessandrino ambush to kill two brothers: Diabolik's killer sentenced to 12 years
Calderon, already tried for the murder of Fabrizio Piscitelli and Selavdi Shehaj, was convicted of the attempted murder of Emanuele and Alessio Costantino

Raul Esteban Calderon , the man accused of killing Fabrizio Piscitelli , known as 'Diabolik', has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, abbreviated for the attempted double murder of the brothers Emanuele and Alessio Costantino which took place on 13 July 2021. An attack failed occurred in the Alessandrino district.

Calderon, who is on trial not only for the crime of 'Diabolik' but also for that of Selavdi Shehaj known as 'Passerotto' , had been reached by the magistrate's order after the investigation by the district anti-mafia directorate of Rome in January 2022 together with Giuseppe Molisso , 40-year-old multiple offender.

The investigations, carried out by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Nucleus of Rome through stalking and environmental and telephone interceptions, had made it possible to reconstruct the motive ( attributable to disagreements which arose following the beating of a nephew of Molisso ), the dynamics of the crime, the ways in which the killer had been assigned, identified in Raul Esteban Calderon.

''The murder of Diabolik was the same, it was up to me! Identical '', said Emanuele Costantino, victim of the attempted double homicide with his brother, in a conversation intercepted and reported in the order with which the investigating judge had validated the arrest, issued by the DDA, of Giuseppe Molisso. The gup of Rome in sentencing Calderon to 12 years has excluded the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method. The prosecutor had asked for a 16-year sentence for the Argentine.

Rome, the shop after Diabolik. The new "system" of clans
The Piscitelli murder stabilized relations: groups do not wage war

In Villalba, a neighborhood between Rome and Guidonia, they called it the Calabrian fort: a real drug dealing square hidden in an apartment protected by cameras and surrounded by one-way streets alternating with "horses" and lookouts placed at the corners. Buyers arrived at all hours of the day, parked, buzzed and the dose was delivered to them. In half a day, this domestic square yielded no less than 2,050 euros. A great deal of money was recovered by the police officers of the Flying Squad who, after an ambush, broke in, seizing drugs, weapons, money and recovering part of the drug in the sewers because if in open-air squares the drugs are thrown into dumpsters or braziers in closed ones are flushed down the toilets.

A new reality that adds to the traditional squares that never go out of fashion but which, on the contrary, multiply. As in the case of Santa Palomba, a neighborhood in the south of Rome.They had set up two perfectly balanced drug dealing squares». "Serving" drugs to both sides was Fabiola Moretti , the former Scarlet Pimpernel of the Banda della Magliana .

February 2022: it is still the time for the "reorganization" although two and a half years have passed since that 7 August 2019 when, at the Parco degli Acquedotti, Fabrizio "Diabolik" Piscitelli, the man who more or less consciously had attempted to "climb" the system after growing up in the shadow of a boss - lucidly "crazy" - ended up like a traitor: killed from behind with a single gunshot. In a hearing before the Anti-Mafia Commission, the former chief prosecutor Michele Prestipino said: "The Piscitelli murder is a strategic murder, it was functional to the reorganization of some criminal balances not only in the city of Rome". But in the capital, the names of those in charge of the drug dealing have been chasing each other for years: native criminals - Gambacurta, Sgambati, Sterlicchio, Casamonica -, Neapolitans (Siena, Moccia, Nastasi, Licciardi) and Calabrians, from the Belloccos to the Filippones up to the Strangios.

Global: Poverty and corruption in Italy at root of crime clans’ chilling turf war
By Stephen Stewart
April 10, 2023, 12:01 am

A police officer with a gun seized during searches in Ostia – mafia territory that is also a tourist haven

Italy must rapidly ­combat ­poverty and corruption to finally defeat the mafia as the nation is rocked by a deadly turf war among rival clans, according to an organised crime expert.

Criminologist Dr Baris Cayli Messina says Italy’s deepening social problems have contributed to a flourishing of the infamous criminal group, with Rome rocked by a high-profile series of murders.

They include the killing of Andrea Fiore, shot dead at his cottage on the outskirts of Rome. Investigators linked the killing to at least other five murders this year all, reportedly, provoked by a power struggle as gangsters vied to control Rome’s cocaine market after the arrest of some of its biggest crime lords.

Messina, associate professor of criminology at Lincoln University, said that, despite police and government attempts to dismantle the mafia, the crime families were still strong. “Mafia members infiltrated Rome’s political and economic institutions to gain control of the city’s illegal economic activities,” he said.

“For every mafia boss or member arrested or killed, another one takes their place. This is a vicious circle that seems difficult to break. To address the problem, the root causes that allow the mafia to thrive must be identified and targeted. One such cause is the lack of ­economic opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas of Italy.”

Police suspect Fiore, 54, was killed to stop him revealing what he knew about the death of his friend Luigi Finizio, 51, a minor underworld figure with ties to the Senese crime clan and who was shot last month.

Led by Michele “Crazy” Senese and linked to the Naples Camorra mafia, the Senese once dominated Rome’s drug trade but has been weakened since its chief was arrested. The list of clans who carve up Rome’s cocaine market but affected by arrests is long, starting with the Casamonica mob, which drew attention in 2015 with the elaborate funeral of a clan elder at which a ­helicopter scattered petals on mourners.

In Ostia, Rome’s seaside suburb, a round-up of the Spada clan was followed in October by the arrest of Roberto De Santis, an Ostia boss with ties to the Naples and Sicilian mafias.

The violence dates back to the murder in 2019 of Fabrizio “Diabolik” Piscitelli, a major drug dealer. He tried to broker peace deals between clans but was shot on a park bench.

Messina added: “The government can weaken the mafia’s influence by addressing issues such as unemployment, poverty and a lack of education. Corruption in the Italian government and police force allows the mafia to continue its operations.”

The Sicilian and Neapolitan mafia have attracted far more headlines and notoriety over the years but Rome has long been prone to corruption. The Mafia Capitale involved the government of Rome, with members stealing money earmarked for city services and carrying out other criminal activities, such as racketeering, loan-sharking, extortion, drug trafficking, fraud and bribery.

Messina said: “The Mafia Capitale scandal in 2014 drew attention to activities in Rome. Mafia groups in Rome have exploited migrants and refugees, trafficked drugs and profited from city contracts for migration management. The group is thought to have amassed millions through drug trafficking and other illegal means, inflating the costs of services provided to migrants and pocketing the difference.”

Messina fears innocent locals and tourists could be caught in the crossfire. He said: “We can expect more violence in the coming months if the mafia groups do not reach an agreement on how to control the activities in Rome or if one of the mafia groups does not achieve a decisive victory over rival mafia.

“The most terrifying outcome of such reckless violence groups is the murder of innocent people who may be present by chance when conflict occurs between rival mafia groups.”

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/corruption-in-italy/

The boss Roberto De Santis, known as Nasca, was convicted of shooting boss Vito Triassi in the legs, which took place in 2007 in Casalpalocco.

So are the three big traditional types of OC - Mafia, Ndrangheta and Camorra - still the main suppliers?
A lot of the drug dealing groups in Rome seem to be acting on their behalf; Senese and Pagnozzi being Camorra transplants, Triassi and D'Agati being connected to the Sicilian mafia from Agrigento, Sgambati and Gambacurta getting supplied by Ndrangheta, etc...

Good question I know the group of Raffaele Imperiale supplied the Roman market with cocaine through the Netherlands.

Man who tried to run over anti-Mob priest charged
Don Antonio Coluccia, targeted by scooter man for drug campaigns

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 30 - A 28-year-old man who tried to run over an Italian anti-mafia priest in one of the suburbs of Rome Tuesday night was charged with attempted murder Wednesday.
Don Antonio Coluccia, dubbed 'father-courage', has been fighting for 25 years against mafia and drug rackets in the peripheries of Italian cities, many in the south, but not only.
The 48-year-old priest, from the Salento area of Puglia, has suffered death threats from the Mob and other drug dealers and has been living with a police escort for the last few years.
On Tuesday night in Tor Bella Monaca a 28-year-old alleged pusher, Sergio Del Prete, tried to knock over Father Coluccia and kill him, instead hitting one of the escorts with his scooter.
Police found a cleaver and a hammer in his backpack and he will also face charges of illegal weapons possession. (ANSA).

It would be a full-blown ambush that took the life of a thirty-eight-year-old Roman. His name was Daniele Di Giacomo, the man hit by some bullets while he was getting back into his car in Tor Bella Monaca, on the outskirts of Rome. He was in the company of his girlfriend, a 26-year-old girl now hospitalized at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic where she underwent surgery. A bullet had lodged in her knee, after having pierced the body of her boyfriend. The ambush in which, according to investigators, between four and six shots were fired took place around 5.30pm in Via Paolo Ferdinando Quaglia under the eyes of dozens of people who saw the execution while looking out the window. The victim died after a desperate attempt to resuscitate him by the 118 health workers. He was known to the police and the Carabinieri for his judicial past, but in recent times he had put his head in order and had become an entrepreneur in the automotive field. For a short time he had been dating the girl who was with him in the car. And according to the investigators of the flying squad of the Rome Police Headquarters, the motive should be sought precisely
in the sentimental sphere, but a transversal revenge in the criminal sphere cannot be ruled out either, because right in front of the place where Di Giacomo was killed, one of the largest drug dealing squares in
Rome is active. The night between Sunday and Monday was the scene of the beating of forty-eight-year-old Claudio Milletti, who was found dying in the middle of the street with his head smashed into a pool of blood.

The shadow of the 'Ndrangheta on Rome: drug dealing square in Quarticciolo destroyed
The raid by the Carabinieri and the DDA: a man from the 'Ndrangheta gang at the top of the criminal organization

Press Release - 13 October 2023 - 11:52Comment Press Send news 3 min

Rome – In the Quarticciolo district, in Rome, the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Roma Casilina on behalf of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome have executed orders ordering precautionary measures, issued by the Court of Rome, against 6 Italian people -4 men aged 50, 44 and 25 and 2 women aged 41 and 46-, of which 3 have been placed in pre-trial detention in prison and 3 are under house arrest. Those arrested are seriously accused, for various reasons, of " Association aimed at illicit trafficking of narcotic or psychotropic substances " and "Illicit production, trafficking and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances".

Quarticciolo, association aimed at drug dealing
The provision is the result of a detailed investigative activity, which began in 2019 and concluded in 2022 , coordinated by the DDA of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome and conducted by the Carabinieri of the Operational Unit of the Compagnia di Roma Casilina.

The investigation, also with the aid of technical activities, made it possible to collect serious circumstantial elements regarding the existence of a structured criminal association , made up of Italian people who managed the retail sale of cocaine, crack and hashish in the neighborhood Quarticciolo, where one of the main shopping squares of the capital is located . At the top of the group was a man of Calabrian origins, currently the recipient of a precautionary custody order in prison, already definitively convicted of mafia-type association, currently detained in the Parma prison, and belonging to a gang with important roles. ndrangheta member of Lamezia Terme.

The investigations documented how the criminal activity took place in various drug dealing areas, monitored 24 hours a day by lookouts and organized through a hierarchy, a clear division of roles and shifts organized between members of the association . In order to hinder the investigations, the suspects used cryptic language to refer to the doses of narcotics, called " cones " or " tickets "; when one of his associates had to carry a large load of narcotics, he said he had to go to a " party ". Finally, the use of a cellar used as a bunker was unique, from which the pusher supplied the customers; the environment, closed from the inside, was equipped with video surveillance and two colored light bulbs activated from the outside which had the function of signaling to the pusher the arrival of the police.

During the investigation, the Carabinieri of the Rome Casilina Company estimated a turnover of around 500,000 euros on an annual basis. Furthermore, to guarantee the loyalty of the members , the proceeds of the illicit activity were also used by the organization to guarantee the sustenance of the families of the suspects when the latter were detained and for the payment of legal expenses , effectively creating a "social safety net". .

The direct involvement of minors was also ascertained , one of whom was also arrested red-handed for drug dealing during the activity, under the direction of members of the criminal organization. During the investigation, in response to the evidence emerging from the technical activity, a total of 8 people were arrested.

Another 9 individuals under investigation, found to be involved in minor roles in the retail sale of drugs, will be sent to trial without the application of precautionary measures.

500,000 a year? That ain't shit.

Yeah when it comes to the drug trade an annual turnover of 500,000 is small potatoes. This was probably just a smaller local drug dealing crew.

When you put it in perspective, trailer park guys from the Aryan Brotherhood in Oklahoma alone for example were selling 2,500 kilograms of methamphetamine annually. A single gram of meth usually costs around 40 bucks so you can do the math...

Many professional drug trafficking crews make much more than half a million every year.

It says that it was one drug dealing square, the Ndrangheta clan in question could possibly control multiple squares. Who knows. It was actually a very sophisticated system from the sound of it, I can't imagine guys like that being okay with a measly 500K a year.

They probably control multiple squares, according to Saviano , in Scampia, Camorra earns around 500,000 euros a day from drug dealing squares. Scampia is largest open air drug market in Europe but still...

More on Quarticciolo.

Many Romans mistakenly consider Quarticciolo a crime-ridden, no-go zone. It’s a vital neighborhood, though many of its roughly 5,000 inhabitants feel stigmatized, isolated from the rest of the city, and ignored by public authorities. Living conditions can be grim, and school absenteeism rates are some of the highest in the capital. Drug dealing is rampant—a source of shame and fear for many residents. Police raids, when they occur, are often violent. But the district is historically famous for its resistance to the Fascist regime, a long tradition of political radicalism, and a unique urban landscape that’s helped forge a sense of community. Determined to restore dignity to their neighborhood, residents have come together to construct a future for their children, improve living conditions, and renovate public spaces.

Read article (english)

https://commonedge.org/rebuilding-and-destigmatizing-romes-quarticciolo-neighborhood/