Luigi Finizio He left his home in Rome days ago. never comeback. At about half past seven in the evening, two men approached. gas station refueling in the neighborhood of Rome quaternary. Someone got off the motorcycle and opened fire. It was the last thing Finizo saw before he died. His life ended right here on a partly cloudy Monday in mid-March. But this is not the only worrying fact. Time of day with the murder of Finizo participates in other murders Recent events in the difficult neighborhoods of the Italian capital have apparently raised the worst fears. A real murder wave.
The brazenness with which many of these crimes were committed, with Rome having not experienced such a reality for at least a decade, is also at the same time alarms went off. another part, marco channelwith a criminal record, punctured by bullets As he slept in his home in the Roma neighborhood in February tufello. And again on the same Monday, another case: the case of a 54-year-old man, again multiple criminal recordsHe called them to report that he had been shot dead in his apartment in the Torpignattara area, which the police later found dead. Worrying crimes that some investigators believe they may have a connection with.
This is particularly evident in the case of Finizo; This is because the dead man is exactly a nobody, but he had a connection to one of the best known, Senese. clans of CamorraThe Naples mafia romantically linked to a ringleader’s family through his cousin. Moreover, the way the murder was committed also affected. To end the life of Finizo, the hooded assassins, it only took ten seconds. “There is no doubt that it was the work of some. professional hitmen“, for its part, was confirmed by a police source consulted by this newspaper.
land of conquest
The manner in which the crimes were committed led to the opening of investigations, which the public was not yet aware of, despite the great interest of the local press. The newspaper Il Corriere della Sera even made an account: In the last six months alone, around twenty murders have been committed in the Italian capital, additional crimes to others. 15 episodes peoples gunshot wounds or severe injuries. An unusual x-ray that arouses fear for Rome a war between clans.
Carabinieri Colonel Mario Conio, director of the DIA (Italian anti-mafia police) operations center in Rome, admits that “yes”, but partially minimizes what he sees as “the result of journalistic presumption above all else” with these readings. , something is moving“inside roman crime fabric. “Rome remains land of conquest for criminals, big and small, as no group completely dominates the others,” he argues.
However, Conio last year localea base cell in the dark hierarchy Ndrangheta, Italy’s most dangerous mafia was born in the southern region of Calabria. Speaking to EL PERIÓDICO, Conio explained that the Ndrangheta cell has started working, “The trial regarding these events is expected to begin in the coming weeks.” in recent years.
headless tapes
various operations Against criminal groups operating in Rome and against other foreigners (most Albanians, most in charge of narcotics retail) Italian law enforcement, as well as agents who beat up police chiefs into the Casamonicas’ native gang changes in the balance of power for Rome. Some, in particular, are wondering if so many arrests made an incident. vacuum power this forces the lower ranked groups to conquer the fields.
Alfonso Sabella, the prosecutor and former councilor of the Rome city council, said this in February. “Former mafia bossescontrolling the city arrested or weaker. There is a power vacuum,” Sabella said. “Il Messaggero” newspaper’s crime historian expert Alessia Marani confirms that the hypothesis of a new power struggle cannot be ruled out, but investigators have yet to determine whether these events are related.
Still, the “feeling is that, more drugs and more guns On the streets, as well as certain money hungry, like they want cash“, says Marani. An example of this, according to Marani, is another phenomenon that was considered unusual in Rome: increase in kidnappings severe Closing the accounts of individuals (or their relatives) or collecting drug debts is “undoubtedly a new phenomenon.