INQUIRY Stidda and Cosa Nostra eternal rivals "Ready for a new war" by Riccardo Lo Verso
The recent interceptions reveal the risk of skipping the "Peace of Riesi"
PALERMO - The splinters "are keeping their heads open", said Ciro Di Palma , a drug trafficker from Campania. They went around with a high forehead, a typical attitude of someone who knows he is strong. The reason was simple: "... because tenon and deaf". The Stidda Gelese has huge sums of money to invest in illicit trade.
The power of money has allowed the gelesi splinters - compared to those of Camorra who challenged the leaders of Secondigliano - to fill the void left over the years by the Cosa Nostra families - Emmanuello and Rinzivillo above all - crippled by the arrests.
The head of the stiddari had become Bruno Di Giacomo , arrested in recent days in the blitz of the mobile team of Gela led by Marzia Giustolisi. Di Palma was the man who supplied his drugs. He also worked with the bosses of Cosa Nostra, but Di Giacomo paid better. Massimiliano Tomaselli, who was in charge of the Neapolitan drug canals , knew well that "war can break out here at any moment".
Cosa Nostra and Stidda fought each other since the 1980s. It was a carnage. Finally, in 1991, they signed the peace of Riesi. The stiddari were officially recognized. Sottotraccia addresses the danger of new conflicts. Thus emerges clearly from the words of Vincenzo Di Giacomo, brother of Bruno. Tale Pasquale, whom the investigators identify as Pasquale Trubia, "the man of Cosa Nostra", said around that as soon as the "lions" came out of the prison, the ground given over to the stiddari would have recovered by force .
Vincenzo Di Giacomo's reply was angry: "If we leave we eat the country ... we are five hundred ... Uncle Vincenzo does not need to wait for the lions ... there are lions outside ... the guns we have around us for shoot".
