«I am the owner of Strongoli». So Enrico Miglio, in April 2024, turned to a married couple in an attempt to extort a plot of land from them. Proof of how the 73-year-old, once released from prison, had taken over “the reins” of the Strongoli gang, headed by the Giglio family, which had been “destroyed by the arrests”. This is what emerges from the Saulo investigation of the Catanzaro DDA. The operation shed light not only on the new structure of the powerful local ‘Ndrangheta Farao-Marincola di Cirò led by the alleged regent Basilio Paletta, but also on the reorganization of the nearby Strongoli clan.
In fact, with the raid started last Tuesday with 21 precautionary measures carried out by the Carabinieri of Crotone, the Catanzaro anti-mafia prosecutor’s office says it is convinced that it has broken “the privileged channel” of existing relationships between the criminal groups of Cirò and Strongoli. Who would have acted on the basis of “agreements” for the “subdivision of the territories of respective competence” where they could impose themselves through extortion. A bond born in the past and which was also confirmed with the appearance of new recruits on the criminal scene. And in this hypothesized delinquent scenario, the figure of Miglio stands out, having become number one in the ‘ndrina strongolose after the detention of the boss Salvatore Giglio.
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