Operation of the carabinieri in the Aeolian Islands, where the soldiers of the lipari and volcano stations have yesterday morning A 71 -year -old man and his son of 48 arrestedin execution of an imprisonment order issued by the Criminal Execution Office of the Court of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto.
The two men, sentenced to 8 years and 8 months of imprisonment each, will have to answer for crimes of illegal competition with threat and violence, personal injury, extortion and robbery.
The investigation, conducted by the Carabinieri of Vulcano between 2015 and 2017, made it possible to reconstruct a series of episodes of intimidation and physical attacks against some foreign street vendors, who would have been forced with violence to leave the sales stations on the island, to allow the two arrested to ensure the most profitable areas of the itinerant trade.
The carabinieri tracked down father and son at their respective homes, and then transferred them to the prison of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, as ordered by the judicial authority.