The boss of Kalsa Lauricella and three others stopped: "They wanted to reconstitute the mafia family"

Carabinieri blitz between Palermo and Villabate. The investigations, coordinated by the district anti-mafia prosecutor's office, revealed the attempt by Cosa Nostra to reassert itself on the territory by focusing on two cornerstones: extortion and drug dealing. Salvatore, son of Antonio "u scintilluni", was preparing to flee,

In the aftermath of the Cupola 2.0 anti-mafia operation, and after a few releases, they allegedly tried to reconstitute the Villabate mafia family by trying to extort, as documented by the investigators, some important entrepreneurial realities. In the front row was Salvatore Lauricella, 46 years old and son of the Kalsa boss Antonio (known as "u scintilluni"), already convicted. The Carabinieri of the Operational Department of the Provincial Command of Palermo arrested four people under investigation for mafia-type criminal association and extortion. In addition to Lauricella, the others involved are: Giovanni La Rosa, born in Palermo, 54 years old; Francesco Terranova, born in Villabate, 49 years old; Vito Traina, born in Palermo, 35 years old.

The investigations coordinated by the district anti-mafia prosecutor's office, culminating in the operation called "Luce", would have made it possible to "document the reorganization maneuver - reads a note from the provincial command - put in place by some top leaders of Cosa Nostra who have returned to freedom after having served the sentences to which they had been definitively sentenced". The mafia family of Villabate, which fell into disgrace after the collaboration of the repentant Francesco Colletti who revealed some important background, would have tried to reassert itself in the area by avoiding hitting the economically more fragile traders and entrepreneurs, limiting thefts and robberies and above all controlling the sale retail of drugs in Villabate.

The investigations then accelerated because one of the suspects, Salvatore Lauricella himself, allegedly attempted to escape so as to lose track of himself. The operation "gives back a picture in line with other recent precautionary measures, namely the one according to which Cosa Nostra would not have resigned at all to succumbing but would have undertaken, through reference to its own rules, to reorganize itself in order to present itself on the territory with greater credibility and authority".