The Catania State Police has disrupted an impressive partnership operating in the Adrano area. On delegation of the Etna District Prosecutor, 15 personal precautionary measures were carried out.

All are under investigation, for various reasons, of the crimes of mafia-type criminal association - the Laudani clan of Catania and the Scalisi clan of Adrano which constitutes their territorial articulation, with the aggravating circumstance of being the armed association, possession and carrying of weapons from fire, numerous extortions against traders, criminal association aimed at the production and traffic and the sale of narcotic substances such as cocaine and marijuana with the aggravating circumstance referred to in art. 416 bis.1 of the Criminal Code for having committed the act in order to facilitate the activity of the mafia-like association called Scalisi.

The GIPs of the Court of Catania and Lagonegro applied the precautionary measure of custody in prison to all except one to which house arrest was applied.

In the same context, the GIP of the Court of Catania also applied the precautionary measure of custody in prison against two of them under investigation for the crime of mafia-type criminal association - clan Scalisi di Adrano, with the aggravating circumstance of be the armed association and by criminal association aimed at the production and trafficking and sale of narcotic substances such as cocaine and marijuana with the aggravating circumstance referred to in art. 416 bis.1 of the Criminal Code for having committed the act in order to facilitate the activity of the mafia-like association called Scalisi.

The judicial measure takes into account the results of the investigations launched in March 2019 and concluded in March 2021, against some people believed to belong to the aforementioned mafia association.

During the investigation it was possible to ascertain how "zicchinetta", already indicated by numerous collaborators of justice as collector of the extortions attributable to the Scalisi clan, had reorganized the aforementioned mafia association assuming control at least until the release of "red head", to him took over.

The investigations made it possible to document the constant relationships between "zicchinetta" and "pitbull", considered an exponent of the territorial fringe of the Laudani mafia clan operating in the popular Canalicchio district of Catania, confirming the affiliation relationship between the two aforementioned criminal areas.

The investigations also made it possible to identify at least 5 extortion episodes carried out by the suspects against as many commercial operators in Adrano.

The activities further match the top rank assumed by the nephew and actual heir of the boss currently held in the prison regime pursuant to art. 41 bis OP The same appears to be operative and supporter of the most important decisions on the dynamics of the association, even though its presence is discreet and less visible than the operational component "on the street". 

In the monitored period, particular moments of tension were recorded, between the members of the Scalisi clan and those attributable to another criminal group that is emerging and operating in the same territory, culminating in the explosion of gunshots against two people.

Following these events, on 21 August 2019, as documented by the images of the video surveillance systems, a summit was held inside a former gym in Adrano, which was attended by members of the Scalisi clan, the Santangelo-Taccuni clan as well as the clan Laudani of Catania.

The collaboration with justice of a collaborator, undertaken in the summer of 2020, aroused a strong disappointment among the acolytes, especially in "zicchinetta", who came to plan intimidating acts against him and his family, aimed at making him retract the statements made against former comrades as well as members of other mafia associations.

Among other things, it emerged in the course of the investigations that the mafia association had put in place on February 17 the damage to a vehicle used for the sale of sandwiches attributable to the family of the aforementioned collaborator, close to an important hearing in which they should have been used. propalations by the collaborator, a fact which appears symptomatic of the association's intent to initiate a series of intimidating and retaliatory acts against the collaborator's family members.

Catania. Operation Triad

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