COSCHE IN CRISIS
In Calabria the 'ndrangheta bosses trapped by "traitor" children
by Arcangelo Badolati - May 10, 2020

The "traitor" children. Never in the 'Ndrangheta would anyone have imagined that children would deny their fathers. That the offspring grown on bread and lead would have emptied the sack causing brothers, cousins, uncles and aunts to get in trouble, violating the inviolable principle of mafia silence that has always governed the things of organized crime in Calabria. And instead, in recent years, it has happened several times. Historical gangs of the most powerful mafia of the Old Continent entered into crisis discovering that the designated heir of the capobastone was incredibly emptying the sack with the magistrates and that his "cantatas" did not spare even the "august" parent.

The last to launch into the arms of the state is Dante Mannolo, male descendant of Alfonso Mannolo, charismatic character of the 'ndrina di San Leonardo di Cutro. Finished behind bars, the son of the feared and respected "Don Alfonso" did not hesitate to break the delivery of silence and tell all he knew just to leave that hell of bars, gates and chains in which the Dda di Catanzaro, directed from Nicola Gratteri, he had sent it. Trafficking, crimes, extortion, relations with politics and even "adjustments" of processes: Dante spoke about everything with the anti-mafia prosecutors Paolo Sirleo and Domenico Guarascio. Nobody in the "kingdom" that was of Nicolino Grande Aracri would have imagined such a catastrophe. Before him, a few kilometers away, two years ago, another "son of art" had started to make the "infamous": Francesco Farao,

As he, on the other side of the region, would have done, a year later, Emanuele Mancuso, of Limbadi, heir of Pantaleone Mancuso, first-rate star of Vibonese crime and known by all as "the engineer". None of the Mancusos had ever "betrayed" the family led by "Zi Luigi", who has recently been re-arrested as part of the extraordinary "Rinascita-Scott" maxi investigation. The last three singing "scions" went to keep company with Giuseppe Giampà, from Lamezia Terme, son of Francesco Giampà, intended as "the professor", superboss of the central area of ​​Calabria. Joseph has been repentant for five years now and is guilty of many blood events. In Cosenza, last year, the son of one of the historical leaders of nomadic crime has also chosen to collaborate with justice: his name is Celestino Abbruzese and everyone has always called him "kitten". His father, Fioravante, is serving final convictions for murder.

In the past, however, it was Pino Scriva, in the 1980s, who left the world of 'Ndrangheta, putting aside the history of his family which, on the other hand, he had long counted in the Plain of Gioia Tauro. After him, in the 1990s, it was Antonio Zagari, son of the Varese boss, Giacomo (originally from Rosarno) who revealed the secrets of the 'ndrine in Lombardy to the magistrates of the DDA of Milan. Then came a woman, Giusy Pesce, becoming the first repentant of a family never touched by direct "collaborations" with the robes.