19-year-old Giampiero Carvone was shot dead at one of the other nights in Via Tevere, in the Perrino district of Brindisi, where he lived with family members.

Mortal ambush in Bari: the order to kill left the prison. The murder took place on the evening of September 11th. The victim Michele Ranieri was hit by several gunshots while he was on the street, in the San Pio district. Those responsible are organic to the "Strisciuglio" clan, operating in the Apulian capital. The presumed principal, Saverio Faccilongo, already in prison for another murder committed in the same neighborhood, was notified of a precautionary custody order. The two alleged material executors, Giovanni Sgaramella and Saverio Carchedi, were also arrested with him.

It is one of the most aggressive clans of the Sacra Corona Unita.

A 22-year-old man who had been shot last night in Triggiano (Bari) was wounded in the groin with gunshots: the young man, who went alone to the hospital to be rescued, told the doctors and carabinieri that he had been hit by strangers and not knowing the reason for the attack.

Mafia ambush with Kalashnikov in the center of Casarano, in the province of Lecce . And a wounded man rushed to the hospital. It is very serious. His name is Antonio Afendi, Moroccan nationality, 28 years old.
From the first information leaked, the victim would be the cohabitant man of Augustino Potenza's widow, boss of SCU killed with Kalashnikov shots in an ambush outside a hypermarket, in Casarano, three years ago. The injured man was hit by bullets in the neck and shoulder while in the car.

Italian police arrest 24 in connection with mafia turf war in Bari
OCTOBER 28, 2019 12:21 EDITORMOB WATCH'

Police from the Italian city of Bari have carried out an extensive operation against the leaders of a crime gang responsible for the crimes of murder, extortion, robbery and the illegal possession of weapons and drugs.

A total of 24 arrests were made during the searches ordered by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Bari, Puglia, Lazio, Abruzzo and Emilia Romagna, with the collaboration of the Crime Prevention Departments of Puglia. Canine units and air support were also involved in the raids.

During the investigation, several weapons along with ammunition, drugs and accounting records were seized, as well more than one million euros in cash.

The present investigation began in the early 2017 when a turf war broke out in the Japigia district south of Bari over control of the drugs trade, following a split within the clan.

A series of tit-for-tat attacks and reprisals resulted in three deaths and several shooting as well as attacks on property.

The murders were committed in Bari between January and April 2017.

On January 17, Francesco Barbieri was shot dead at close range by a hit man. On March 6, four assassins, armed with machine guns and pistols, murdered Giuseppe Gelao and seriously wounded Antonio Palermiti, grandson of one of the top members of the Parisi clan. On April 12, assassins armed with Kalashnikovs killed Nicola De Santis.

“One of the largest districts of the city was controlled in a mafia-like sense through the (incursions of armed groups), which represent a form of subculture that comes from cinema and then results in the effects that we now see – said deputy prosecutor of Bari Francesco Giannella, referring to the Italian gangster movie and TV show Gomorrah, which was reportedly referenced by some of the suspects in wiretapped conversations.

The alleged material perpetrator of the attempted murder of 28-year-old Antonio Afendi Amin was arrested. This is 24-year-old Giuseppe Moscara, affiliated to the cosca 'Montedoro'.
Afendi is considered by investigators the rising star of the Potenza della Sacra corona unita clan, of which he had inherited the regency after the killing of the boss Augustino Potenza, which took place in front of a Casarano hypermarket on 26 October 2016.

A Gargano mafia clan leader, Pasquale Ricucci, 45, was killed a while ago in an ambush carried out with rifle shots under his home in via San Pietro, in the 'Macchia' district of Monte Sant'Angelo. The man is considered by the investigators to be at the top of the Lombardi-Ricucci-La Torre clan, heir to the Romito, always fighting with the 'mountaineers' Li Bergolis-Miucci clan.

Mafia, maxi blitz in Puglia: 50 arrests, "D'Abramo-Sforza" clan hit
The police of the provincial command of Bari arrested 50 people, including leaders and affiliates of the "D'Abramo-Sforza" clan of Altamura. The accusation is in various capacities of an armed mafia-type association, possession and carrying of weapons, drug trafficking, murder, attempted murder, extortion, bid rigging.

An ambush failed yesterday afternoon in the industrial area of ​​Manfredonia, the target was Leonardo 'Dino' Miucci, from Monte Sant'Angelo, brother of Enzo Miucci , considered by the investigators the current ruler of the 'mountaineers' clan.
The ambush could be the response to the murder of Pasquale Ricucci, the last victim of the Gargano mafia, killed last November 11, in Macchia, a hamlet of Monte Sant'Angelo.

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The Fourth Mafia is still underestimated by the Italian state.

600 thousand inhabitants, 7 thousand square kilometers and a single court, moreover with 12 thousand pending trials, many in the trial phase due to lack of classrooms in which to hold trials. Suffice it to say that in October 2021 it was not possible to assign a dignified workplace to 14 expert chancellors and six judicial operators. This is the situation in the province of the dangerous and ruthless 'Fourth Mafia' in which the state thinks about how to continue to deal with it, not taking into account, at the moment, the need to reactivate the judicial structures that were abandoned a few years ago.