The hand of organized mafia crime could be behind the murder of Bartolomeo Pio Notarangelo, the 36-year-old killed in an inaccessible area of the Gargano, in the Tagliata area of Mattinata in the province of Foggia.
The alarm was given to the police yesterday afternoon by his family members who, not seeing him return, searched for him in the land he owned which he had purchased a few years ago.
They thus found the man’s lifeless body.
The Carabinieri are in charge of investigating the crime, coordinated by the magistrates of the anti-mafia district directorate of Bari. Bartolomeo Pio Notarangelo, with a history of drugs and weapons, had family ties with the Quitadamo family, believed to be close to criminal circles.
Antonio and Andrea Quitadamo – nicknamed Baffino – have been collaborating with justice for some years and Notarangelo was the brother-in-law of the youngest of the brothers, Andrea.
The victim also had family ties with Angelo Notarangelo, the boss killed in Vieste in 2015 in a mafia ambush, of which Marco Raduano, the boss, once right-hand man of Angelo Notarangelo, now accused by some weeks collaborator of justice.
The police are working in a very complex context, considering the absence of cameras and possible witnesses. Last year the victim’s cattle breeding company was hit by an anti-mafia interdiction issued by the prefect of Foggia (ansa).
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