Mafia in Bari: request for indictment of 45 affiliates of the Gargano clan 01 October 2022 The preliminary hearing will be held on 11 November
The prosecutors of the DDA of Bari, Ettore Cardinali and Luciana Silvestris, have asked for the indictment of 45 defendants, almost all of them Gargano involved in the Omnia Nostra investigation which resulted on 7 December 2021 in the arrest of 32 people. The preliminary hearing will be held on 11 November in front of the Gup of Bari.
They are accused in various ways of mafia as affiliated to the Romito Ricucci Lombardi clan in the area of ??Manfredonia, Mattinata and Monte Sant'Angelo and to the Raduano clan of Vieste. Of two murders in 2017, that of Giuseppe Silvestri which took place in Monte Sant'Angelo, and of Omar Trotta in Vieste, both connected to the wars of the Gargano mafia and the attempted murder of Giovanni Caterino, alleged basist of the San Marco in Lamis massacre.
Among the charges, there are also drug dealing, extortion and robbery, scams, money laundering and fraudulent transfer of values. Among the 45 defendants there are also 5 repentants. According to the indictment, at the top of the Romito Ricucci Lombardi clan were Matteo Lombardi (sentenced to life imprisonment in the first degree for murder of Silvestri), Mario Luciano Romito (killed in the San Marco in Lamis massacre of 9 August 2017) and Pasquale Ricucci ( killed in Macchia, a hamlet of Monte Sant'Angelo in November 2019).
