They convinced the victims, mostly building and real estate entrepreneurs, to pay the 'pizzo' by declaring that they were members of the Camorra and using bombs and weapons. Four people, from Angri, Castellammare and Sant'Antonio Abate, were arrested this morning by the Carabinieri of the territorial department of Nocera Inferiore, supported by the military of Castellammare di Stabia and Torre Annunziata, because they were considered responsible for complicity in extortion, attempted and consummated, aggravated by the mafia method.
Marzio Galasso, 54 years old from Sant'Antonio Abate but resident in Angri and Aniello Bruno, 49 years old from Angri, ended up in prison. Aldo Fluido Esposito, 58 years old from Castellammare but resident in Pompei and Giovanni Galasso, 30 years old son of Marzio, ended up under house arrest.
The investigation by the Salerno District Anti-Mafia Directorate, launched in February last year, following the explosion of a device on a construction site in Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino, where a multi-specialist medical center was being built.
According to investigators, the act of intimidation was based on an extortionate demand, to the detriment of both the company carrying out the work and the client entrepreneur (for a total sum of approximately 100.000 Euros), paid in advance through 'visits' that the suspects, armed with pistols, made to the workplace.
“We are from the Galasso-Fontanella clan and if you don’t pay you will be blown up,” they threatened. In the crosshairs – it was ascertained in twenty months of investigation – also two other construction companies, engaged in the construction of a railway overpass in Angri.
Five other accomplices were reported at liberty. They are ML, 54 years old, from Sant'Antonio Abate, PG, 41 years old, from Angri, GM, 60 years old, from Angri, AN, 56 years old, from Castel San Giorgio and finally VC, 69 years old, from Angri.
Rosaria Federico
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Article published on 19 October 2017 - 16:51
