“There were subjects who also made 2000 calls per weekin total we monitored over 30 thousand conversations ». To say the commander of the economic-financial police unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Vibo Valentia during the press conference relating to the ten arrests made this morning on the impulse of the DDA of Catanzaro. Object of the investigation – called “Call Me” – It is the Gostere La Rosa di Tropea-Licadi The existence of which, said the prosecutor Salvatore Maria Curcio “was certified with a judgment that has already been final in 1990”.
The prosecutor launched the alarm on the now endemic presence of “cell phones, even seven centimeters, tablets, smartphones and Wi-Fi devices in prison”. A real social alarm also in light of the data provided by the DAP: «In 2022 – explained the prosecutor – they were resold and seized in the prisons 1,084 mobile phones, in 2023 the number rose to 1,595 and in 2024 there are 2,552 seizures. An alarming figure – said Curcio – who creates a vulnus in public security “. The ‘ndrina la rose, in fact, “give orders to commit crimes such as extortion and gave the directive associates on how to behave in the area”.
Although in prison there were those who managed to maintain an active role within the gang. “A few solution to the problem must be found,” said the prosecutor who listed the solutions adopted by other countries: “In France they use jammer, that is, frequency disturbers, and similar solutions are also used in Germany and the United Kingdom. In America there is a control network that allows you to identify cell phones “. In Italy, a shielding of the penitentiary structures still not implemented was proposed.
The provincial commander of the Guardia di Finanza of Vibo Valentia Eugenio Bua underlined the role of the women of ‘Ndrangheta who continued to “hold relationships on the territory”. The commander of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Catanzaro, Salvatore Tramis explained how the code language emerged from the interceptions to indicate extortion: meatballs, arancine. “It emerged – called Tramis – an extortion request in the Covid period consisting in the fictitious intake of a ‘ndrina woman”.
