A son of art. «I am Francis Rangothe son of Maurice Rangoif you dare call the police I’ll shoot you in the mouth and set your place on fire”. This is how the twenty-one year old firstborn of the life-sentenced boss of the “Nuova famiglia” of Cosenza addresses the owner of a bar in the center of Bruzio who found himself in the middle of a furious fight that broke out in the place.
The manager is threatened and beaten repeatedly, as is the security guard who was kicked and punched by a group of five people determined to fight on a Saturday night last April. The reasons for the fight, which initially broke out between two girls in the bathrooms of the public establishment, are trivial. As always. Rango, however, intervenes, supported – this is the reconstruction of the public prosecution – by Giuseppe Bevilacqua, 48, using violence against the security guard hired to monitor the premises.
The two were arrested by the Carabinieri on charges of private violence aggravated by mafia methods. The investigations conducted by the Carabinieri of the Cosenza Operations Department were coordinated by the Catanzaro District Attorney’s Office, led by Vincenzo Capomolla. Rango and Bevilacqua were placed under house arrest by the investigating judge of Catanzaro, Luke Bonifacewhich accepted the requests of the anti-mafia prosecutors Vito Valerio And Corrado Cubellotti. The two defendants who are defended by lawyers Antonio Quintieri And Francis Jasminethey protest their innocence and will appear before the Court of Liberty on Wednesday 11 September. Maurizio Rango, Francesco’s father, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a final sentence in 2019 for the murder of Luca Bruni, regent of the homonymous family of Cosenza, assassinated in Rende in January 2012. The man was the head of the mafia organization called “Nuova Famiglia” active in the urban area of the capital of Alta Calabria and specialized in extortion and drug trafficking.