Shops, cars and villas set on fire: the Sibaritide clans raise the bar. The latest case: a bar burned down on the day of the owner’s funeral

The feeling is that, after the blows inflicted by the DDA in recent years on the Sibaritide gangs, the clans in the area need money and to get it they are willing to attack a business on the day of its owner’s funeral. It happened yesterday in Marina di Sibari, in the municipality of Cassano allo Ionio […]

There sensation is that, after the blows inflicted by the Dda in recent years to the gangs of Sybaritidethe clans in the area need money and to get them they are willing to hit a commercial exercise on the day of its owner’s funeral. It happened yesterday at Sibari Marinain the municipality of Cassano allo Ionio in the province of Cosenza, where the second room was set on fire in less than a month. This time it was the turn of the historic bar-pastry shop “Martucci” which is located in the main square of the location tourist. A few hours after the funeral of the founder of the commercial activity, Matteo Martucci who passed away the day before yesterday at the age of 77, his family also had to deal with the fire which caused considerable damage to the bar-pastry shop. First a loud bang heard from some citizens who were nearby triggered the alarm. The flames, immediately afterwards, completely destroyed the public place also causing damage to four other commercial activities. The incident is being investigated carabinieri who, now, will have to understand if there are gods connections with others intimidation occurred recently.

The same fate as the “Martucci” pastry shop, in fact, on the night between 17 and 18 March last befell the yogurt shop of the family Bloise which is located in the same central square as Sibari Marina. Same method and same result: premises destroyed and message clear for all the other traders of Cassano allo Ionio, who have been under the control of the for several months now ‘ndrangheta of the area which is a sort of laboratory between traditional clans (i Forastefano) and gypsies (the Abruzzese) affected by the operations of the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia District Directorate. This is the “Kossa” investigation which reconstructed the management of the “basin common“between the two gangs that had conniving relationships with professionals and entrepreneurs, but above all investigations”Gentlemen” And “Gentlemen 2” who crushed the drug trafficking set up by the Sibaritide bosses. The police investigations are ongoing but it is not excluded that the intimidation to the detriment of traders are a sort of clan reaction. After the arrests there are the processes which have a cost as well as the maintenance of families of ‘Ndrangheta which must move forward despite the action of the judiciary. Hence, probably, the need to intensify extortion and the pressure on traders harassed by mafia families.

The certain fact is that episodes like the one in the pastry shop “Martucci” and the yogurt shop “Bloise”, are now the order of the day in Cassano allo Ionio. Not to mention, in fact, all the cars that have been set on fire in the last year, just think that in May 2023 one was set on fire chaletowned by a citizen of Acre, in the tourist complex of Sibari Marina. After a month, on the same night flames destroyed a restaurant in the district Bruscate Small and a small villa which was located in the nautical complex of the Sibari lakes. It is the same complex where, in September, the restaurant was set on fire.”Lux” which suffered 50 thousand euros in damages. A month later, still ai Sibari lakes it happened to two summer villas in the complex “Kalakos”. All in just over 24 hours.