Turin, Operation Echidna: axis emerged between Camorra and 'Ndrangheta
AMTwo thousand 09 April 2024
The 'Ndrangheta-Camorra axis also appears in the investigation by the Turin DDA and the ROS carabinieri code-named Echidna. Two of the arrested people, Antonio and Luigi Mascolo , originally from Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) and resident in the Turin area, are said to be part of the 'local' 'Ndrangheta group of Volpiano but, according to what can be gleaned from the documents in the proceedings, they worked to help some exponents of the Stabiese Camorra to the point that the investigating judge, in the precautionary custody order, said he was struck by the fact that "despite the distance from their region of origin, these links continued to be active and constant". In particular, these are members of the Vitale family, considered close to the D'Alessandro clan, for example welcoming Luigi 'Gino' Vitale to Leinì to allow him to spend a period of time under house arrest. The name of the actor and singer Mario Merola , the famous 'king of the drama', who died in 2006, also appears in the documents of the subalpine Dda . Antonio Mascolo, 60 years old, in a conversation intercepted in 2021 told of when, on the orders of a person unspecified, put "a gun to his head" because he owed money. But for this reason, he added, he became the target of "two or three clans of Naples". It does not appear that the Turin DDA is carrying out any investigations into the episode. Mario Merola was investigated in two legal proceedings, in 1983 and 1989, and was always completely exonerated.

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