BARI – In the summer of 2021 in Bari a war would have been underway between the Strisciuglio of San Paolo and the Palermiti clan of Bari Vecchia and Japigia. Or at least that’s what the Strisciuglio clan’s new justice collaborator, 35-year-old Domenico De Palo, nicknamed “Trentotto”, says.
In a long interrogation before the prosecutors of the DDA of Bari, on February 23rd, the “repentant” told what he knows about the relationships between the criminal groups of the city and in particular the criminal context that preceded the murder of Ivan Lopez , the 31-year-old killed on the San Girolamo seafront on 29 September 2021. The report, partly omitted because De Palo evidently also reported details on ongoing investigations, ended up among the documents of the trial on the Lopez crime. The “repentant” says he knows nothing about the ambush, also because he had been arrested a few days earlier and at the time of the murder he was in prison, detained for a weapon in the same cell with the victim’s brother, Francesco Lopez, also then “repentant”.
However, he was able to reconstruct the previous months and weeks, the extortions made and the threats, the contacts with the detained clan leaders and with the associates of the rival gangs.
The «REPENTMENT» – The story starts, as usual, from his criminal history.
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