(ANSA) - Foggia, May 24 - A local mafia boss and his wife were gunned down in a cosmetics shop at San Severo near Foggia in Puglia Wednesday. The couple were killed by several gunshots, police said. The husband was identified as Nicola Salvatore, 56, and his wife as Isabella Rotondo, 55. The boss, who had a criminal record for drugs, eluded another assassination attempt in December when he escaped with an abdominal wound when he and another drugs convict were attacked with a machine gun. Police said the double homicide was probably linked to another murder in San Severo last October. Bari anti-mafia police are investigating. Puglia's mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita (United Holy Crown, SCU), is Italy's fourth and smallest mafia after Calabria's 'Ndrangheta, Sicily's Cosa Nostra and Campania's Camorra.

Source: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/05/...86939e896f.html

The SCU is more violent than Sicilian Mafia and 'Ndrangheta, they should get more media attention.

Camorra is first place by violence,then SCU.I have no idea why they have almost no media attention.

The rank of Lo Sgarro is interesting you can earn it by killing at least three people.

Matteo Sponsillo, 54, a guard of some construction sites on the outskirts of Foggia, died in hospital after he was wounded a few hours earlier in a shootout.

Yesterday Antonio Petrella, 54, and Nicola Serrelli, of 43 years, uncle and nephew, were killed in the late afternoon in an ambush accomplished on the outskirts of Apricena, in Foggiano, with shots fired from a Kalashnikov, a shotgun and a pistol. One thinks of a settling of scores within the local underworld.

Thanks for the updates Hollander. The Italian organizations interest me. I don't know much about the SCU. Looks like we might have the beginning of a war on our hands.

I had no idea they are violent like this.

The two convicts were close to the Di Summa-Ferrelli clan.

It's Nicola Ferrelli.

A convict on probation was killed last night in an ambush along the road 16 in Foggia. Matteo Lombardozzi, 50 years old of San Severo, was reached by a burst of Kalashnikov and gun shots aboard his Fiat Fiorino.
The surveillance cameras have caught the ambush.

In an Italian documentary about the SCU I watched, they said it's the only mafia-type organization that theoretically could be eradicated from the region because, unlike the other 3 (Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra), they don't have a long history that makes them go back to some historical aspects of local culture, with many "grey areas": even when it's not outright crime, it's silent complicity by many local citizens who aren't members or associates themselves, but are either afraid or just don't trust the authorities, even the ones who don't take bribes. In the Apulia region on the other hand, the mafia is not THAT well developed, it has been formed in a "real" sense of the word only in the first 80s, when Giuseppe Rogoli started organizing the prisoners (including the ones that were about to be released and therefore could extend their power to the streets), to resist the attempt by Raffaele Cutolo and his camorra to take over the region. Rogoli was backed by the 'ndrangheta boss Umberto Bellocco and succeeded in preventing the camorra to take over, but his organization still wasn't as strong as the other regions, some groups started separating from the main SCU organization and even today experts say that it's incorrect to say that all the mafia in Apulia is SCU, in reality it's just the biggest and strongest, while the others are separate groups with other names.

Anyway, the point is that, being relatively young / recent and not yet solidified as an organization with powerful connections or radicated in local culture, THEORETICALLY they could clean up the region if they really wanted to, it would be much easier than Sicily, Campania and Calabria. But, as usual, they don't want to. Even if the authorities maybe aren't corrupt as a whole, but many of the ones who aren't corrupt, are LAZY, and that's not really better...

The Puglian Mafia has a few subgroups.

Società foggiana
Camorra barese
Sacra corona libera
La Rosa

It seems the current war in Foggia goes abroad. Saverio Tucci, 44, from Manfredonia has been found shot dead in Amsterdam. Tucci, known as Angel Face, had criminal records for mafia association and drug trafficking and was a leader of the Società Foggiana. They already caught somebody who confessed immediately.

Police in Puglia arrested Federico Trisciuoglio and his son Giuseppe. He's the top leader of the Societa Foggiana the organisation is in a war which claimed almost 20 lives this year.

Rocco Moretti founder of the Societa Foggiana.

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I've always wondered, is this a warning of some kind??

No. I just do this occasionally to resize the summary on the Active Topics page.

Murder in an ambush in the early afternoon in Foggia. The victim, the well-known Rodolfo Bruno, 39, is considered close to the Moretti-Pellegrino-Lanza clan of the Società Foggiana.

The boss Michele Russi, 58, was shot dead in a barber shop in the town of san Severo (Foggia); in the ambush two men were injured. His nephew Francesco Paolo Russi, 36, was also killed on August 25.

State and Carabinieri police dealt a huge blow to the mafia in the area of the southern city of Foggia with the execution of arrest warrants for 30 people in a big operation.

The suspects are alleged members of the Moretti-Pellegrino-Lanza and Sinesi-Francavilla mafia clans.

Around 10 of the suspects are convicts who were already in jail.

The accusations include alleged mafia association, extortion and attempted murder.

According to official case documentation, it is suspected, among other things, that managers, former managers and a former coach of Foggia soccer team were pressured by the mobsters to sign a player.

Foggia are currently second-last in Italian soccer's second tier, Serie B.

La società foggiana is involved in a war which claimed around 30 lives in the last two years.
For the first time police showed the structure thanks to a turncoat; it has ranks and rituals similar to the 'Ndrangheta, but probably it was Raffaele Cutolo that started ceremony of initiations and ranks in Foggia, the 'Ndrangheta copied the old Camorra structure at the ending of 1800 and Cutolo wanted to rebuild it.

Robberies, bombs and war among the clans in Foggia: 16 arrests
Attempted murder, detention of weapons, attempted extortion, fires, robberies, detention of explosives: 16 people were arrested in Foggiano with an interforces operation called "Chorus".
The arrests - among which there are also some affiliates to the mafia clan Moretti / Pellegrino, the son of Rodolfo Bruno, assassinated in an ambush on November 15, 2018 and Camorra clan of the Panico family (vesuvian hinterland of Naples).
This tranche of arrests refers to the attempted murder of a prominent member of the Sinesi / Francavilla clan (Moretti / Pellegrino rival), thwarted by the police on 23 January, after having blocked two cars with three members of the commando on board armed, including the killer who would physically execute the execution.

Francesco Pio Gentile, 50, reputed member of the Romito clan, was shot dead in the town of Mattinata (Foggia)

The boss Cosimo Carbone, 62, was shot dead in the town of Trinitapoli (Foggia).

Damn things are really heating up there , i wish we had more info so we actually knew what was going on

The young boss Girolamo Perna, 29, was shot dead in the town of Vieste (Foggia).

Thanks for info Hollander, this guys will soon be like Camorra , bosses and other high ranking members getting killed