Murder and lupara bianca, 4 arrests in Altamura
The body of Biagio Genco, the 32-year-old killed by gunshots in the countryside of the Murgia municipality on 17 November 2006, was never found.
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Breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of Biagio Genco, the 32-year-old from Altamura disappeared at the end of 2006 and his body was never found. Arrested by the Carabinieri at the request of the Bari district anti-mafia directorate were 4 suspects of the crime, with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method: Giuseppe Antonio Colonna, aged 56, Michele D'Abramo, aged 57, Giovanni Sforza, aged 61, and Nicola Cifarelli, 45 years old. Three were already detained.

According to the magistrates, on the afternoon of November 17, 2006, Genco was deceived into his car in the countryside of Altamura by two people (including Bartolo Dambrosio, believed to be the head of the clan of the same name, killed in 2010) and killed with three rifle shots fired by one of the arrested men, now 56 years old, with the support of the other three who then made the victim's car disappear. The statements made in February 2023 by Mario Dambrosio, Bartolo's brother, were decisive in the turning point. that in addition to admitting his responsibility for the crime, he indicated the other people involved. Genco's body would have been buried in a field between Altamura and Matera by Colonna and Mario Dambrosio.

Bartolo Dambrosio, believed to be the instigator, would have participated in the murder to facilitate the mafia activity of his own criminal group, with which the victim, despite having been part of it, had entered into conflict, so much so that he had planned an attack against the clan leader himself .