The Carabinieri of the Norm of the Cassano company, together with the investigative nucleus of Cosenza and the Norm of the Castrovillari company, arrested Celestino Abbruzzese, 78 years old, progenitor and already an apical element of the family of ‘Ndrangheta degli Abbruzzese, as he was held responsible for the crime of evasion.
The man, subjected to house arrest in the municipality of Quiliano (Na), as follows by custodial provision issued in the context of the operation called “Athena” (June 2023), on 30 September, authorized to go to the Castrovillari court to attend as accused of an hearing, suddenly walked away making his tracks losing between the municipalities of Castrovillari and Frascineto, More return to the home of the country of the Neapolitan hinterland where the same was in the precautionary regime.
The immediate research of the carabinieri, extended in the territory of Cassano and in the rural areas of Frascineto and Castrovillari and protracted relentlessly for more than 48 hours, made it possible to locate and arrest the escapee, which was tracked down in the late evening of October 2 immediately after returning to its home located in the Red Timpone district of Cassano. The overall activity placed in place has made it possible to deduce a series of elements deemed suitable to proceed with the arrest in the act of the subject, which was associated with the Castrovillari district house.