Originally Posted by Hollander


Italy arrests 81 people over suspected links with mafia group
Authorities say alleged crimes committed by arrested people include extortion, corruption, arms and drug trafficking, violent threats, homicide


The "famous" names
Among those arrested, in addition to top figures of the Vibo 'Ndrangheta such as Salvatore Morelli (already detained), the lawyer Francesco Sabatino (already a candidate for mayor of Vibo in the 2015 municipal elections) ends up in prison. The lawyer Azzurra Pelaggi (already involved in the first Maestrale operation) is under house arrest; Cesare Pasqua , former medical director of the ASP of Vibo and Andrea Niglia , former mayor of the Municipality of Briatico and former president of the Province of Vibo. Many of the names involved in today's blitz were also included in the Maestrale 1 suspect list a few months ago. The activity, conventionally called "Maestrale-Carthago", constitutes in fact the natural continuation of the first tranche of the operation, carried out last May 10th, which made it possible to dismantle the associations of the 'ndrangheta of Mileto and Zungri, with the 'ndrine of Briatico and Cessaniti , also hitting the structures of "command and control" and the "military and business wing" of the respective organizations, whose representatives were already detained for another reason and therefore not affected by the detention order.

All names
In jail:

Giuseppe Antonio Accorinti known as Peppone alias "Scimusca" (Zungri, 27.03; 1959);
Salvatore Ascone (Limbadi, 11.09.1966);
Francesco Barbieri (Cessaniti, 02.21.1965);
Giuseppe Barbieri (Tropea, 04.22.1992);
Michelangelo Barbieri (Vibo Valentia, 8.10.1993);
Fortunato Bartone (Mileto, 13.12.1973);
Pietro Giuseppe Bellocco (Gioia tauro, 4.8.1983);
Domenico Cicchello (Vibo Valentia, 5.12.1972);
Nicola Fusca (Vibo Valentia, 13.3.1972);
Ottavio Galati (Miletus, 01.21.1968);
Salvatore Galati (Mileto, 25.11.1955);
Domenico Iannello (Vibo Valentia, 29.4.1977);
Luigi Mancuso (Limbadi, 16.3.1954);
Clemente Mazzeo (Vibo Valentia, 10.3.1968);
Michele Silvano Mazzeo (Seregno, 8.2.1971);
Giuseppe Mazzitelli (Tropea, 15.4.1990);
Emanuele Melluso (Tropea, 5.7.1985);
Simone Melluso (Tropea, 5.7.85);
Salvatore Palmieri (Mileto, 19.3.1976);
Pasquale Pititto (Mileto, 31.12.1968);
Salvatore Pititto (Mileto, 2.12.1968);
Domenico Polito (Desio, 20.2.1974);
Antonio Prostamo (Vibo Valentia, 27.3.1989);
Francesco Prostamo (Vibo Valentia, 8.5.1985);
Giuseppe Prostamo alias "Ciopane" (Mileto, 12.4.1985);
Giuseppe Prostamo alias "Giubba" (Vibo Valentia, 3.11.1989);
Nazareno Prostamo (Miletus, 31.5.1961);
Francesco Sabatino (Polistena, 25.3.1979);
Rocco Tavella (Vibo Valentia, 17.5.1984).

At home:

Ambrogio Accorinti (Zungri, 29.4.1963);
Rocco Anello (Philadelphia, 3.2.1961);
Tommaso Anello (Francavilla Angitola, 28.5.1964);
Onofrio Barbieri (Vibo Valentia, 10.1.1980);
Francesco Barone (Vibo Valentia, 25.10.1973);
Domenico Bonavota (Vibo Valentia, 1.6.1979);
Filippina Carà (Vibo Valentia, 12.12.1989);
Giuseppe Carà (Dasà, 26.10.1962);
Piero Castagna (Vibo Valentia, 5.10.1978);
Nazareno Cichello (Vibo Valentia, 21.4.1960);
Domenico Cordì (Taurianova, 27.6.1972);
Raffaele Corigliano (Mileto, 8.11.1967);
Raffaele Corigliano (Vibo Valentia, 3.4.2000);
Vincenzo Crudo (Vibo Valentia, 9.2.1992);
Giuseppe D'Andrea (Tropea, 17.9.1977);
Maria Vittoria Errigo (Serra San Bruno, 7.12.1954);
Angelo Familiari (Messina, 4.11.1964);
Antonino Fiorillo (Vibo Valentia, 18.9.1974);
Claudio Fiumara (Francavilla Angitola, 27.2.1966);
Massimo Fortuna (Vibo Valentia, 22.10.1976);
Carlo Gioffrè (Rosarno, 7.5.1965);
Antonio Grillo (San Calogero, 25.9.1970);
Antonino La Bella (Vibo Valentia, 22.9.1980);
Rosario La Rocca (Vibo Valentia, 21.12.1974);
Pasquale La Rosa (Tropea, 14.3.1965);
Giuseppe Mangone alias "Pinu u barberi" (13.2.1955);
Damiano Marrella (Vibo Valentia, 7.10.1976);
Francesco Massara (Mileto, 11.08.1957);
Fausto Melluso (Vibo Valentia, 5.6.1973);
Sandro Melluso (Vibo Valentia, 16.2.1977);
Salvatore Morelli alias "The American" (Vibo Valentia, 10.13.1983);
Andrea Niglia (Tropea, 22.7.1976);
Gregorio Niglia alias "Lollo" (Tropea, 8.4.1983);
Cesare Pasqua (Nicotera, 11.11.1948);
Joan Pelaggi (L'Aquila, 21.4.1977);
Maria Rosa Pesce (Rosarno, 25.8.1953);
Gaetano Moltiero (Melicucco, 29.10.1964);
Fortunato Pontoriero (San Calogero, 19.4.1949);
Giusepppe Preiti known as Pino (Vibo Valentia, 18.1.1975);
Nicola Preiti known as Cola (San Calogero, 31.12.1968);
Antonio Prenesti known as Totò alias "Yo Yò - Mussu stortu" (Nicotera, 20.9.1966);
Antonio Domenico Prestia (Tropea, 15.4.1999);
Antonio Gaetano Prestia known as Tonino (Mileto, 26.12.1964);
Giuseppe Prostamoalias "U russuni - U blond" (Vibo Valentia, 5.8.1970);
Savatore Prostamo alias "U Sasizzu" (Briatico, 6.5.1960);
Ettore Romagnoli (Rome, 3.9.1957);
Marco Startari (Vibo Valentia, 17.8.1989);
Antonio Tripodi (Vibo Valentia, 29.9.1973);
Mattia Giovanni Tripodi (Tropea 14.10.1996);
Leopoldo Giulio Valente (Vibo Valentia, 9.1.1979);
Giorgio Vurro (Pizzo, 21.11.1956);
Giovanni Zuliani (Vibo Valentia, 1.4.1996).

Submission obligation:

Maria Carmela Ciconte (Sorianello, 31.12.19699);
Giulio Solano (Vibo Valentia 24.11.1999);
Santo Vincenzo Varone (Turin, 26.3.1990).


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