Extortion with machine guns and armed raids, 3 arrests in Pozzuoli – Video

This morning, in Pozzuoli, the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Naples carried out a precautionary custody order in prison, issued by the Gip of the Court of Naples at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 3 suspects, considered seriously suspected, at various title, extortion, attempted extortion in competition and illegal possession and carrying of weapons, with the aggravating circumstances of mafia purposes. The investigations coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate made it possible to collect serious evidence of crime against the suspects in relation to six extortions to the detriment of restaurant business owners, retailers and resellers in the Pozzuoli fish market with requests for sums of money between the 800 and 3000 euros, also advanced with the use of machine guns and pistols. The investigative activities have highlighted some extortion episodes perpetrated, between the month of September and the month of December 2017, by a group of subjects headed by CA , called “the ghost”, who, thanks to the absence from the territory of the historical leaders of the Longobard clan, would have conducted numerous armed raids and explosions of gunshots (over 10 in just three months) against commercial activities The interception activities contributed to the reconstruction of the various episodes with the evidence of the testimonies given by the victims. A decisive role, for the purposes of the successful outcome of the investigative activity, was the discovery of the so-called “accounting” contained within a sort of agenda in which the traders to be extorted and the sums to be paid: this diary was found inside the room where A. was hiding to avoid the execution of other precautionary measures.