All convicted. The Catanzaro magistrate Piero Agosteo today inflicted 11 years and 10 months in prison each on Fabrizio Gallo, Salvatore Laudari, Francesco Pupa, Francesco Gallo, Gianfranco Gallo and Gregorio Laudari, accused by the DDA of having kidnapped and severely beaten a 23-year-old from Crotone in the Lampanaro district on 28 November 2024, with violence worthy of Kubrick’s film “A Clockwork Orange”. The 6 defendants were found responsible for kidnapping for the purpose of extortion, personal injury and robbery, with the benefit of general mitigating circumstances. According to the investigators, the victim was attacked, forced into a car, taken to the courtyard of a house in Lampanaro, kicked and punched during a vain escape attempt; and then taken to another apartment, beaten with a hammer and threatened with a knife and an axe.
Moments of extreme violence are those described in the investigation papers conducted by the Crotone Flying Squad which, on 17 February 2025, led to the arrest of the 5 alleged members of the “gang”: Fabrizio Gallo, Gregorio Laudari, Salvatore Laudari, Francesco Pupa and Luciano Gallo (who will be judged at the Assizes). Otherwise, Francesco Gallo and Gianfranco Gallo ended up in handcuffs immediately after the incident following the raid of the agents in the latter’s house, after having been warned by the friend of the beaten boy. While the other companions managed to get away until the raid, which began a year ago.
According to the prosecution, the defendants also asked a ransom of 10 thousand euros from a friend of the victim from whom they demanded the delivery of his car. The victim’s story, that of his friend, together with the wiretaps and the “scientific” findings made it possible to reconstruct the dynamics of the attack and the subsequent kidnapping of the young man. The raid was apparently caused by a theft carried out by the victim and his friend in Gianfranco Gallo’s house. Hence the ambush against the boy who was attacked with kicks and punches with a hammer and a helmet and then forcefully loaded into an Opel Corsa headed towards Via Federico Fellini. First stage of that rosary of violence which for the 23 year old ended with the arrival of the officers. The defendants were defended by lawyers Rocco Santoro, Aldo Truncè, Sergio Rotundo and Fabrizio Salviati.
