LAMEZIA TERME A daring chronicle, a scene from an action film which however took place in Crotone. No director shouting for action but a commando intent on killing 40-year-old Baris Boyun, the one who is considered the undisputed leader of a criminal association linked to other foreigners spread across European territory. A group of “cells” rooted partly in Italy as in the territories of Milan, Alba, Asti, Vetralla and Crotone, partly abroad and in countries such as Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo and Bulgaria. Boyun is ended up in handcuffs this morning in the raid carried out in Bagnaia, a hamlet of Viterbotaken at the first light of dawn in via Cardinal de Gambara and coordinated by the Milan Anti-Mafia District Directorate together with 17 other people.
It is the night of March 18, 2024, about two months ago, when some alarmed citizens contacted 113, explaining that they had heard the screams of a woman and some shots coming from an apartment in Via V. Veneto, in Crotone. Once on site, the State Police officers verified that the shots came from number 16 e they found, scattered on the stairs, some shell casings and a damaged door with a broken latch. Only later did the officers ascertain that the shots were aimed at Boyun’s apartment. It was Boyun’s wife who then said that at a certain point there would have been a power cut and that, going down the stairs to turn it back on, she would have noticed two men, with their faces covered, that they chased her up the stairs until she was dragged into the apartment by her husband. According to the woman’s account, the men then fired at the door of the apartment which they then tried to kick in before giving up when the woman went out onto the balcony to seek help.
An episode, however, not random. From an interception dating back to February 2 this year, it is understood that Ozge and Durmus feared a sort of attack against Boyun during the journey from prison to Crotone. «(…) they say they will do something on the foreign news at midnight (…) that they will organize an attack on him along the way…». Boyun himself, on March 2, 2024, says he “has just received news and heard that they know he is under house arrest and they are looking for a sniper for him”, reports the investigating judge in the order. And actually, when the attack actually happens, Boyun’s reaction “is not to turn to the police but to ask his associates to recover the most powerful weapons to defend him”, writes the investigating judge in the order.
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During his detention under house arrest in Crotone, there are numerous occasions in which the “chief” Boyun communicates with members of his group and organizes criminal activities. These include the alleged trafficking of migrants and the facilitation of illegal immigration, in particular of Turkish citizens, into Italy. It’s February 9, 2024 when aboard the Mercedes of Ahmet Durmus, a Turkish born in 1987, who ended up in prison today, the investigators intercepted a series of telephone conversations “aimed at organizing an illegal passage from the Italian borders”, writes the investigating judge in the order. Ahmet Durmus, speaking on the phone, on speakerphone, to a man called “Hamza” «told him that there were three people who had 3,500 (without specifying whether Euro or Turkish Lira) each». The interlocutor «in response said that, if they wanted to do “the route with walking”, they would have to pay 2,500 each, that the walk would be 2 hours and then the rest in the car». A few days later, on 18 February 2024, Ahmet Durmus, aboard the same car, called Hamza again «asking him for news about the boys. Hamza replied that people were on the streets and were about to reach the city of Sarajevo, in Bosnia.” Ancor Durmus said he had spoken to a certain “Emirhan” «to organize the transport by truck, agreeing on the amount necessary for the transport, an amount that will have to be paid to the “truck driver”». A few days later It is Boyun himself who talks by telephone with an unidentified person, to whom he «proposes a solution to bring “men” to Europe, passing through Bosnia, to then reach other European states, including Germany»writes the investigating judge in the order.
Since the month of January 2024, from the environmental interception operations inside the B&B in Milan where Baris Boyun was temporarily domiciled together with his wife Ece, a conversation had been captured during which «the interest of the criminal group in the organization had emerged of a criminal action against a better-suited jewelry store”. Furthermore, after the attack suffered on the night of 18 March 2024 in Crotone, «Boyun repeatedly expressed his desire to take revenge against those responsible» who the 40-year-old had identified as some Turkish individuals called “Naci”, “Ali Uzun” and “Burhanettin”, later identified as Burhanettin «presumably belonging to rival criminal organizations». In particular, the suspect’s intention emerged «to carry out a real armed attack in an aluminum factory, attributable to Burhanettin who could be identified, as learned from the conversations, in the Kurtoglu factory in the city of Tekirdag, a province bordering Istanbul », protected by bulletproof glass and armed guards. “Give me a week, I’m making great preparations, all of Turkey will be talking about it.” The preparations for the criminal purpose, according to Boyun, would have taken time but the results would have had enormous resonance in Turkey. Furthermore, the terrorist “also arranged an inspection using a drone, in order to better plan the armed attack on the factory”, notes the investigating judge in the order. Thanks to the information acquired during the technical activities, the PG had taken steps to inform the Turkish authorities who, in the meantime, sent numerous patrols to the site, preventing the attack on the factory and against Saral Burhanettin from taking place.
The prosecutor also accuses the 40-year-old Turkish man of complicity in aggravated voluntary homicide committed in Berlin. Boyun’s responsibility “as instigator of the murder” would have been ascertained, once again, through the conversations captured in the environmental in the Crotone apartment. It is March 10, 2024 and while Boyun was in the bathroom, his wife Ece read him some messages received, informing him that this “Kamil” in congratulating him, evidently for the success of an unspecified activity, had written that “it was finished, congratulations'”, writes the investigating judge. Upon receiving this information, Baris Boyun, once receiving confirmation, told the woman to «look for the entry “GERMANY” in the address book where she would find the contact “Ersin Aytekin Germany”, asking her to «write to this person “congratulations, it’s solved” on Telegram ». As already mentioned, from the beginning of the investigations, for the investigators and the investigating judge “the existence of an armed criminal group active in various areas of the national territory appears plausible”.
The suspects, in fact, almost always go around armed, they unequivocally have clandestine weapons and even weapons of war, functional not only to “carry out attacks but also to defend themselves and defend what is considered the undisputed leader of the group”. The investigators realized this immediately after the arrest, which took place on 5 October 2023, of three subjects: Tolga Gueltepe, Fikri Fatih Cancin and Kerem Akarsu, for possession and carrying of two weapons, namely a Glock pistol and a SIG Sauer, and almost 70 grams of marijuana. The men, in fact, were in fact the escort of Boyun’s car. In particular, as emerged from the investigations, Cancin and Akarsu, who in the meantime were freed and subjected to the obligation to reside at the Oasi Community of Viterbothey had taken care to “pick up” Boyun Ece in Crotone where she was with her husband Baris after the attack which occurred on March 18, 2024. Akarsu, still in the company of Cancin, on board the Honda CRV with Swiss license plate, on March 21, 2024 he would have gone to Lamezia Terme airport to pick up Ece Boyun and accompany her to Bagnaia», right where the raid took place this morning. ([email protected])
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