With three decrees, all on November 23, the Ministry of Justice, At the request of the Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Bari Region, I have ordered the application of the detention regime provided for in Article 41 bis of the Prison Regulations against Lorenzo Caldarola, Vito Valentino and Alessandro Rota. These are references Strisciglio clan It operates respectively in the districts of Libertà and San Paolo in the city of Bari, which has recently been affected by the “Vortice-Maestrale” operation carried out by the Bari Mobile Division and the Bari Carabinieri District Command.
Caldarulahas already received several orders for pre-trial detention in prison (Operations Sant’Anna, Black & White, Lithos, Eclissi, Break Down2 and Courage), again and again, once and for all, having committed an offense in accordance with Article 416 bis of the Criminal Code, and for this reason, has been subject to, in the past, a special regime of imprisonment. The latter, as punishable in various criminal proceedings, even with final sentences, is considered the undisputed leader of the Strisciuglio clan in the provinces of Libertà and San Pio.
The activities carried out, corroborated by numerous statements made by the collaborators of justice, clearly showed how Caldarola actively promoted and organized the branching drug-trafficking activity, directed him during the period of detention in prison, and managed to communicate with the outside world through family members or directly, using mobile phones smuggled into the prison, in defiance of prison norms of behavior.
Valentine’s Day He always displayed a clear inclination to commit serious crimes, and immediately sided within the mafia organization known as the Strisciuglio clan; On the other hand, the same arose in a family context already enlisted in the ranks of the aforementioned clan.
The aforementioned bear, among other things, final provisions to kill Dominic d’Ambrosio (which took place in 2003), committed when Valentino was a minor and by the Mafia Association (Operations Eclipse and Courage). Moreover, a non-final sentence of 20 years in prison for murder Antonio Luisi And his wound Luigi’s father (30 April 2015); In his criminal approach there are many precautions for the crimes of association that marked his rise in the arena of the mafia to which he belonged.
His inclusion in the criminal conspiracy was determined by the close declarations of new collaborators with justice welded together with other sources of evidence and feedback activities, in particular with numerous environmental interceptions, carried out in the aftermath of serious bloody acts (kin murder Louis) that took place in the Libertà region, and which saw Valentino himself as manager.
He also played a strategic role as a prisoner: through “embassies” with relatives or other channels of communication, he set the conditions for new strategies to be implemented to reorganize the various branches of the aforementioned clan.
criminal way Street It led him to assume the role of chief joint of the Strisciuglio clan in the province of San Paolo in Bari. And the same was, among other things, permanently convicted of a mafia association (Operation Courage), And also, on a non-final basis, the murder of Antonio Luisi, committed, moreover, with his partner Valentino Vito. Also on this occasion, his joining the criminal association is described at length by several parallel statements by collaborators of the Justice Organization, which are combined with other sources of evidence and confessional activities. The permanent role played by ROTA during the period of detention also emerged.