A real blow was inflicted by the Reggio Calabria gup to the defendants with abbreviated rite of the “Garden” trial, against heads and wingmen of the “Borghetto-Latella” gang of the Modena-Cicciallo and San Giorgio Extra.
Twenty -three convictions and only one acquittal: Sunday lucky Serpa “for particular tenuity of the fact”. Judge Francesco Abbar, fully accepting the requests of the assistant prosecutor Walter Ignazitto and Nicola De Caria, sentenced: Cosimo Borgetto, 20 years old; Eugenio Borghetto, 20 years old; Fabio Pennestrì, 18 years old; Antonino Idotta, 20 years old; Paolo Latella, 20 years old; Angelo Latella, 20 years old; Davide Berlingeri, 20 years old; Giorgio Matteo Perla, 14 years old; Francesco Saraceno, 12 years old; Antonino Familiari, 14 years old; Giovanbattista Mento, 14 years old; Vincenzo Malaspina, 5 years old; Felice Melchionna, 4 years and 8 months; Giovanni Cacopardo, 14; Armando Catanzariti, 16; Francesco Bevilacqua, 4 years old; Maurizio Filocamo, 6 years old; Badr Guasby, 14 years old; Carmelo Rocco Iaria, 20 years old; Bruno Iaria, 14 years old; Nicola Danilo Polimeno, 14 years old; Pasquale Giulio Fumante, 3 years old; Francesco Ferrante, 13 years old.
Among the disputes of the anti -mafia pool, in addition to mafia association, extortion, detention and abusive port of firearms, drug dealing and traffic of drugs, usury, also the climbing project at the top of the ‘ndrine di Reggio “center” of the brothers Cosimo and Gino Borghetto and the escalation of the nomads of the community of Reggio Sud, the same ones who scroll through the buildings of the Marconi district and Ciccarello.