At the beginning of April, Rocco Morabito, 59 years old from Bovalino, Reggio Calabria, had been arrested by the Locri Carabinieri. in competition committed in mafia mode. Yesterday, another arrest in the Morabito family.

This time, after the son, it is the turn of Giovanni, brother of Giuseppe Morabito, 'u tiradrittu, boss of Africo who tackled business in Buccinasco with the other clan head, Antonio Papalia. During an anti-drug operation, in which the carabinieri, together with the soldiers of the Calabria hunter-assisted squadron, found a bag with about a kilo and a half of marijuana, the police of the Brancaleone and Africo Nuovo Stations arrested Giovanni Morabito, 69, of Africo Nuovo.

The brother of tiradrittu must serve 7 years for mafia association, as part of the proceeding following the Zagara operation conducted by the Milan Public Prosecutor. The 84-year-old tiradrittu, undisputed leader of the 'Ndrangheta, expert narcos and allied with the Bruzzaniti and Palamara clans, was arrested in 2004 after 12 years of inaction at Cardeto, in the Aspromonte mountains. The boss had asked to be able to leave prison (recluse on 41 bis) for serious health problems related to the pathologies he suffers from. The Milan Surveillance Court in 2017 had denied the request, but a year later the Cassation annulled the decision: it will be necessary to re-examine the request.