Milan, 22 May. Prison is the only possible precautionary measure, according to Milan investigating judge Roberto Crepaldi, who signed the order that brought the alleged Turkish mafia boss Baris Boyun, one of Ankara’s most wanted men, and 18 others to prison. people accused, in various capacities, of criminal association aggravated by transnationality, armed gang aimed at establishing an association with terrorist purposes and committing terrorist attacks, illegal possession and carrying of weapons and explosives, international drug trafficking, murder and aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
The provision of over 100 pages highlights the “risk of recurrence of similar conduct” and “further very serious crimes involving violence against the person and the use of weapons”. Danger, writes the judge, which is deduced, first of all, “from the gravity and vastness of the associative context, which has demonstrated – despite a relatively limited period of technical investigations – all its firepower and ramification in Europe” . A “ruthlessness” that would have its leader in Boyun. The group’s ability to operate on national, European and domestic territory is “worrying”, and there is also “a serious and imminent danger” of the suspects fleeing abroad. “The precariousness of foreign citizens in the territory and the existence of strong links with criminal groups (and cells of this same associative reality) operating abroad leads us to believe that a similar risk exists”.
The suspects themselves, moreover, “stated that their stay in Italy is strictly linked to the request for protection made to the Italian State. Well, precisely the ability to exploit institutions to escape international arrest warrants or simple expulsion, boasting alleged persecution by the Turkish government, confirms that, if left at liberty, they can definitively escape justice” underlines the investigating judge. “The technical operations have made it possible to ascertain how the suspects themselves hypothesize that they are leaving the country – even to return to Turkey – to escape justice after a criminal act”.
