(LaPresse) The Ragusa State Police, on orders from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catania, arrested 3 people on charges of attempted aggravated murder and mafia association. The measures were adopted as the suspects were charged, in conjunction with each other, with the crimes of attempted murder against a former justice collaborator and mafia-style criminal association. In particular, the investigations launched immediately after the attempted murder which occurred on 25 April in Vittoria, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catania, have made it possible to hypothesize that the people arrested were responsible for committing the ambush, as well as the existence of a dangerous armed criminal organization of a mafia nature, attributable to the “Stidda Vittoria”. The investigation activity, corroborated by technical interception activity and traditional judicial police services, made it possible to believe that within the criminal association there was the objective of physically eliminating a list of people who collaborated with Justice and who are present in Vittoria, with the aim of revenge and in order to consolidate the exclusive control of all illicit affairs of interest to the criminal organization over Vittoria and the entire province of Ragusa. The investigation shed light on the availability of a considerable number of weapons, including war weapons, and on the possible use by those affiliated to the mafia clan to carry out the criminal plan and to acquire control of city economic activities through extortion activities against damage to numerous entrepreneurs and traders. DISTRIBUTION FREE OF CHARGE – NOT FOR SALE
