Bari, war between mafia clans for control of drug dealing in Madonnella: 10 arrests
There State Police arrested a Bari ten people for a double attempted murdermafia, which occurred in 2018 in Madonnella district. Two criminals were targeted. The operation was coordinated by the district anti-mafia directorate of the Apulian capital.
Also affected are the ten people affected by the precautionary measure in prison carried out by agents of the Flying Squad of the Police Headquarters on the orders of the investigating judge of the court. The incident occurred on the evening of 18 September 2018 in via Cattaro, on the corner of via Dalmazia. The charges are double attempted murder, illegal possession and carrying of firearms, receipt, slander and damage followed by fire, all with the aggravating mafia charge and in competition. In the summer of 2018, the fringe of the Clan Strisciciuglio of the San Paolo neighborhood attempted to conquer the thriving drug trafficking and dealing activity in the neighborhood Madonnella of Baritrying to oust the clan Palermo, which has always been dominant in that district. On the evening of September 18, the targets of the shooting were two criminals from the clan Japigiawho were traveling on a scooter: the armed commando, aboard a stolen car and three motorcycles, opened fire, regardless of the presence of citizens walking in the street.
The passenger of the scooter managed to evade bullets fired from a Colt 38 special revolver and from one semi-automatic pistol Cz9 mm caliber, while the driver, hit in several parts of the body, managed to save himself after a delicate surgery and a long hospital stay. Once the ambush was completed, one of the motorbikes used by the hitmen was set on fireon the Bitonto-Palese provincial road, while for the other motorbikes, belonging to members of the Strisciuglio clan, false reports of theft were presented, with the aim of hindering the investigations.
The response of the Palermiti clan, for the ambush of September 18th, was not long in arriving: in fact, six days later, on September 24th, in the Carbonara district of Bari, Michele Walter Rafaschieri was murdered and his brother was seriously injured. The people arrested today, aged between 25 and 47, have been placed in prison. Only one of the recipients of the provision was placed under house arrest.
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