Attack on the Campofranco mafia family, 9 arrests by the police
Anti-mafia operation in the province of Caltanissetta. The carabinieri, coordinated by the Nissena DDA, inflicted an attack hard blow to the Campofranco clan: I am 10 the people to whom, during the preliminary investigations, precautionary measures were applied (7 in prison and 3 under house arrest). One of them is untraceable and is wanted. All are under investigation for the crime of mafia-type association, extortion aggravated by the mafia method and the availability of weapons, possession and dealing of narcotic substances in competition.
The investigation was launched in October 2022, monitoring attendance reports of Angelo Schillaci after his release from prison for mafia association. It has been ascertained as the suspects, most of whom are presumed to belong to the mafia family of Campofranco, had attempted to reorganize the criminal group, with a particular interest in obtaining weapons and the creation of a “common fund” through the illicit proceeds of extortion and drug dealing. Four attempts at extortion have been documented against some companies involved in the renovation of public works in the municipalities of Campofranco and Milena (also through acts of intimidation) and of a commercial operator from Campofranco, as well as three extortions against entrepreneurs and commercial operators. The current boss has been identified, and collaborative relationships with the affiliates of Milena and the province of have been ascertained Agrigento.
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The Campofranchese mafia family, also known as the Vaccaro clan due to the over twenty years of traceability of the top to members of the blood family of the brothers Domenico and Lorenzo Vaccaro, has always been at the center of the balance of mafiosi in the province of Caltanissetta, also at the regional level for the very high criminal profile of its leaders, starting with Domenico Vaccaro, the last provincial representative of the Cosa Nostra in Nisse, who had assumed an important role in the balances of the Sicilian Mafia nin the years immediately following the capture of the historic leader Salvatore Riina because he was identified as the replacement for the head of the Commission provincial, Piddu Madonia. The activities carried out by the Investigative Unit, with the collaboration in the area provided by the staff of the Carabinieri Company of Mussomeli, have made it possible to ascertain how the Campofranco family, apparently in difficulty due to the shortage of men in freedom, had continued to operate effectively on the territory maintaining control of the same through already known individuals and others “closed” and “confidential”, recruited in the most recent period. During the activities, among other things, Schillaci’s acrimony towards a mafioso currently justice collaboratorso much so that they are thinking of implementing retaliatory actions against him.
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