Liguria Gate and relations with the Cammarata. The clans of Gela, Riesi and the bosses of the Walloon

The investigation that led to the arrest of the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti has highlighted the increasingly incisive role assumed by the mafia clans in the Genoa area. Starting with the Cammarata di Riesi, a powerful clan in the local district, who – as emerges from the ordinance signed by the investigating judge – would have ensured votes in exchange for jobs for those close to them. The presence in Liguria of a large community of mafiosi coming from Gela, Riesi and some towns in the Vallone, moreover, is nothing new and is demonstrated not only by the judicial investigations which resulted in a maxi-trial which took place in Genoa, but also by a long chain of murders. A feud between Cosa Nostra and Stidda for the control of the territory and drug trafficking which in the early 1990s spread from Gela and Riesi, the epicenter of this bloody mafia war, to the Ligurian capital. A Sicilian criminal, Angelo Stuppia, 36 years old, owner of a car showroom in Val Bormida in the Savona area, was shot dead on 20 November 1990 while he was on his way to visit his wife who had given birth to a baby in the Celesia hospital in Rivarolo, in the west of the city. Another criminal also originally from Riesi, Juliano Giuliano, 26 years old, was killed on 13 October 1991 in Genova Pra’. For these crimes, which were also linked to the murder of Gaetano Gardini, killed on 6 October 1990 inside a restaurant in the historic center of Genoa, some members of the Fiandaca-Emmanuello mafia clan from Gela linked to the historic mafia boss of Caltanissetta “Piddu” Madonia, but some life sentences were later annulled by the Supreme Court. Another murder attributed to the same Gelese association is that of Luciano Gagliano, killed with six gunshots on 13 November 1991, while he was aboard his car in Bolzaneto, on the outskirts of Genoa. Two people opened fire on him: one bullet hit him in the back, five others in the head. According to the reconstruction of the investigators, supported by the statements of Angelo Celona, ​​a collaborator of the Gela justice system, Gagliano had not paid for a half-kilo batch of cocaine to the Fiandaca-Emmanuellos. Initially the murder was attributed to the ‘Ndrangheta, but the accused were acquitted. The case, which remained unsolved for years, was reopened by the Genoa flying squad, thanks to the declarations of some collaborators of justice, including, in addition to Celona, ​​the former boss of Vallone, Ciro Vara.