Drug Pact between Messina and Calabria, the repentant speak: 19 arrests
A criminal pact that united the two sides of the Strait, with a vast drug trafficking center. This was revealed by the Messina carabinieri, who at today's dawn carried out an order for pre-trial detention which led to 19 arrests.
The names of the arrested: Angelo Albarino, Giovanni Albarino, Stellario Brigandì, Fortunato Calabrò, Santo Chiara, Rinaldo Chierici, Roberto Cipriano, Giuseppe Coco, Alessandro Duca, Costantino Favasuli, Salvatore Favasuli, Adriano Fileti, Stefano Marchese, Gianpaolo Milazzo, Giovanni Morabito, Francesco Spadaro, Maria Visalli, Marcello Viscuso. Under house arrest: Orazio Famulari.
On the Calabrian side, the gang that was once ruled by the boss of the 'Ndrangheta Giuseppe Morabito, called the “Tiradrittoâ€, and on the Messina side by a criminal group "autonomous".
The interception, search and seizure activities that followed, "strengthened" by the statements of some collaborators of justice (including the head of the "messinese faction" of the organization) allowed the investigators to reconstruct a detailed picture.
