18 were indicted. For them the trial will begin on October 16 at the Crotone Court. Then another 36 defendants asked and obtained to be judged with the abbreviated rite (which in the event of a sentence provides for the discount of a third of the sentence). While only one person has decided to negotiate. So yesterday, in front of the gup of Catanzaro Fabiana Giacchetti, the preliminary hearing ended by the 55 accused involved in the“Sahel” investigation of the District Anti -Mafia Directorate. The blitz, taken on September 20, 2024 with 31 precautionary measures performed by the carabinieri of Crotone, would have dismantled the ‘Ndrangheista di Cutro organization directed by the prisoner Vito Martino and linked to the large Arachri gang, dedicated to extortion and drug trafficking. And in this alleged criminal scenario, there is also the “blow” that Renato Guarnieri, judicial official in service to the Anti -Mafia prosecutor of Catanzaro, in 2021 would have done to Paolo Verni, brother -in -law of Vito Martino, on the investigations against a certain Francesco Martino, a homonymous of the son of Vito.
The process
They ended up on trial: Liliana Barbieri, Danilo Bevilacqua, Giuseppe Brizzi, Giulio Buonifati, Renato Guarnieri, Salvatore Ierardi, Celia Martin de Oliveira, Francesco Martino, Salvatore Martino, Vito Martino, Antonio Musacchio, Angelica Passalacqua, Daniele Passalacqua, Pino Pinocqua, Stefano Placanica, Salvatore Squandale, Michele Sodaro and Marco Massafra.