Clan Laudani 17 arrests

GIARRE. A new and very hard blow was inflicted by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catania to the articulation of the Laudani clan operating in Giarre and in the neighboring municipalities. At the dawn ofthis morning, the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Catania have executed an order issued by the investigating magistrate Loredana Pezzino, at the request of the deputy prosecutor Assunta Musella, against 17 subjects accused for various reasons of mafia association, extortion, drug trafficking, injury, theft in homes and laundering of illicit proceeds through fictitious headers of deposits and current accounts. All crimes aggravated by the purpose of facilitating the mafia association. Among the recipients stand out the names of Alessandro Liotta, considered at the top of the criminal organization, Salvatore Nicotra, known as 'Turi da Macchia', historical exponent of the mussi of ficurinia, and Davide Indelicato, considered the new face leading the group after the arrest of Liotta, in February 2017, as part of the anti-drug operation called Bingo. The operation, called smack forever, takes its name from the design in the shape of lips, with around the inscription forever, tattooed on the body of Giuseppe Musumeci, called 'u ciceraru'.