Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta united in a "One Thing" to destabilize the institutions. Twenty-six years after the deadly ambush to two carabinieri - Antonino Fava and Giuseppe Garofalo (killed in Scilla on 18 January 1994) - prosecutors Giovanni Bombardieri and Giuseppe Lombardo asked for life imprisonment for Giuseppe Graviano and Rocco Filippone, man of the Piromalli of Gioia Tauro, considered the instigators of the murders and the injury of two other soldiers.

The Calabrian aid to Totò Riina
The massacre design implemented between 1990 and 1994, according to the will of Totò Riina, according to the Reggio Prosecutor's Office was not only the work of Cosa Nostra. The 'Ndrangheta also joined the project with a decision made by seven heads of families, who gathered in a cottage in Nicotera. The bombs and ambushes should have made it clear to the government of the time that there was an agreement with the Mafias that had to be respected and that "nobody could have done without them". Deputy Prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo in his five-day indictment explained that the ambush committed by the Consulate Villani and Giuseppe Calabrò to the two carabinieri was "A terrorist-mafia act". It was claimed with the acronym "Falange Armata" to divert investigations and to remove suspicions from the 'Ndrangheta which, otherwise, could have lost strength and consensus.