Mafia, business and politics in the province of Messina. Shot against the Barcelona clan, 81 arrests by Salvo Palazzolo
Cosa Nostra managed security in the premises along the coast, Mafia infiltration in the fruit and vegetable marketing sector. The Mafia political electoral exchange has also been contested FEBRUARY 22, 2022 1 MINUTE READ They had served a Mafia sentence and returned to their usual business. Two bosses aimed to restore the clan of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto to the criminal splendor of the past. And they did, unfortunately. The investigations by the Carabinieri of the Messina provincial command, coordinated by the prosecutor directed by Maurizio de Lucia, revealed a pressing presence of Cosa Nostra in the area. Last night, 81 arrests were made. Five reporting obligations have also been notified to the judicial police.
The Barcelona clan had returned to impose its bouncers on the premises of the Tyrrhenian coast. Many other entrepreneurs were forced to pay the protection money. The bosses also focused on new drug trafficking. And then they reinvested the illicit proceeds in legitimate economic activities, in the fruit and vegetable sector. Also thanks to the help of unsuspected people.
The wiretapping of the Carabinieri of the Messina Operations Department is really the very current story of the mafia that is transforming: the most disturbing aspect is in the attitude that is recorded towards the godparents who have returned to freedom. Unfortunately, many continue to look for the bosses, to solve the most diverse issues. Even to look for votes during election campaigns. The Messina case then becomes emblematic. Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto has always been a laboratory for alliances and criminal relations: at the center, there is an ancient mafia, which holds the secret of many relations with the clans of Palermo and Catania. It is the mafia that told a courageous journalist, Beppe Alfano, correspondent of the newspaper "La Sicilia", was murdered on January 8, 1993. And still today the family members ask to know the whole truth about the true reasons for the crime, a new investigation is in progress.
Barcelona and its mysteries. A mafia that scares entrepreneurs, no one has denounced the bosses. Others found the embrace of the released godparents convenient, so they hoped to relaunch their business.
