“I have no peace for my son – said in prison the boss Filippo Burgio, the father of Emanuele, killed last year – they killed him like a dog, they killed me these pulla children ..”. And with his right hand he motioned to cut her throat. Filippo Burgio was supposed to leave the Voghera prison this morning, but he never left his cell: the carabinieri of the Palermo Investigative Unit notified him of a new arrest order. And, in the meantime, a new blitz has taken place in the city center, against other exponents of the Porta Nuova district: on 6 July 18 people were arrested, a few days after the murder of the boss Giuseppe Incontrera; 12 other suspects were arrested last night (four go to jail, eight to house arrest).
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Among the recipients of the precautionary measures there is also the wife of the Incotrera boss, Maria Carmelina Massa, who the wiretapping revealed to be the clan cashier for drug deals. She goes to house arrest.
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The wiretapping
The investigation, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido and by the substitutes Giovanni Antoci, Gaspare Spedale and Luisa Bettiol, revealed the reorganization of one of the most dangerous clans of the Cosa Nostra. The Palermo bosses have now returned to invest heavily in drug trafficking, which they manage throughout the supply chain: from wholesale procurement to retail outlets throughout the territory. The wiretapping again revealed that the Porta Nuova district directly managed six shopping squares, which are located in the historic markets of Capo, Vucciria, Ballarò, but also in the Zisa district, between via dei Cipressi, piazza Ingastone and via Regina. White.
Two hundred arrests
“The action to control the territory has led to more than 200 arrests for mafia and drugs in eight months – says General Giuseppe De Liso, the provincial commander of the Palermo Carabinieri -. In these latest investigations we came across well-known personalities of the mafia organization: subjects who, after serving years in prison, had returned to freedom, and had immediately taken up significant roles within the criminal team. Investigations in real time, carried out with the coordination of the Palermo anti-mafia district management, which blocked dangerous attempts to reorganize the Cosa Nostra in the bud, but also murder projects ”. The last two blitzes have led to prominent bosses such as Tommaso Lo Presti known as “the long one” or Giuseppe Di Giovanni.
“With this night’s operation, the State reaffirms that there are no free zones in Palermo – continues General De Liso – there is no room for those who exercise violence or criminal business. In recent days, we have given a name to the killer who allegedly acted in Zisa; tonight, we returned to the same territory to disrupt a dangerous mafia clan that had managed to reform itself despite the repeated blows inflicted by the carabinieri in recent years ”. Cosa Nostra does not resign. And he is always looking for new business.
Winds of vengeance
Between 2019 and 2020, Incontrera, the murdered boss, was very active: he managed the top of the district together with his consuocero, Giuseppe Di Giovanni. They controlled the territory in a capillary way: by imposing the lace, new shop openings had to be authorized. A barber was even stopped, because his business would have bothered a competitor. The last secrets of the clan told them one of the soldiers of the clan, Filippo Di Marco, until a few months ago he was involved in drug dealing. He told the prosecutors of Palermo the background of the murder of Emanuele Burgio, the 25-year-old murdered last year in via Cassari, in the Vucciria. Officially, after a trivial quarrel. In reality, there would have been a dispute over the control of drug markets. “The cousin of Burgio had asked me for a gun – Di Marco reported – he wanted to take revenge against a relative of the Romano family, arrested for the crime”. Then, in prison, Filippo Burgio’s intentions of revenge were also recorded. Block these too.