by johnny_scootch » Sat Dec 17, 2022 5:23 am
With the "Bivio 2" operation, another hard blow to the San Lorenzo district 2021
By Giovanni Burgio
Giulio Caporrimo, arrested together with 7 other people on Wednesday, July 21, reaffirmed his power over the San Lorenzo - Tommaso Natale district thanks to the capillaries, almost obsessive, extortion carried out on the economic activities falling within his territory of competence.
There was no entrepreneur, trader, contract or business movement, who escaped the ‘putting in place’, the ‘subsidy to the prisoners’, the ‘Christmas gift’. Vincenzo Taormina, Antonino Vitamia, Vincenzo Billeci, imposed them punctually on those who worked in this part of Palermo.
Cosa Nostra: carpet extortion
If there was a new excavation work in Sferracavallo (another village in the so-called “Mandamento San Lorenzo-Tommaso Natale), it was necessary to immediately ascertain ‘to whom it belonged”; if renovations were being done in a school, it was necessary to pay the due; when a construction company resisted, a van was burned; if the owner of the
And some of these extortion and ‘concession of permission’ have had paradoxical if not even comic implications. There is the construction builder who protests with the boss for the failure to award the 780,000 euro contract; another owner of works who turns to other family heads to intercede on the “permission”; the small bar that pays the wrong man of the cosca; the owner of numerous garages who went to Caporrimo to get a discount, finds himself paying more because some of these activities
Eleven were the extortion ascertained by the investigations. Two entrepreneurs who rebelled and denounced.
Giuseppe Vassallo, owner of several agencies, would have paid Cosa Nostra 1,000 euros a week. In this case, however, the investigators say, it would not be a real extortion, but a collaboration between the owner of the betting points and the mafia organization.
Vassal, in fact, would have deliberately and continuously sought the bosses, both to obtain authorization to open other agencies, and to have greater commercial advantages from these illicit relations.
The internal war at Cosa Nostra
In the last ten years, the San Lorenzo – Tommaso Natale district has undergone as many as ten anti-mafia operations, and the last two, in January 2021 and this one in July, have the same name ‘Bivio’ for a specific reason. The affiliates and heads of household, in fact, are faced with a choice, at a crossroads: to follow the directives of the last Provincial Commission reconstituted in Baida on May 29, 2018, or to deny ‘the legitimacy’ of this new Dome?
Giulio Caporrimo has no doubts, and has quite clear ideas about it. He explained them to himself and out loud in his frequent soliloqui captured by the bedbugs installed in his machine: “This is no longer Cosa Nostra. The Commission cannot make two or three mandates. And then they all repent, and they get scared. When you propose them to do something serious, they run away, they are afraid. They have shrunk like the stiddari. Cosa Nostra is now like Stidda. This is a Thing as it comes to us, as it appears to them. Cosa Nostra is like a field of gypsies.”
In fact, Caporrimo, out of prison, does not recognize the regent designated by the Commission, Francesco Palumeri, and, between 2019 and 2020, he leaves Florence for a few months. Returning to his territory, however, he is immediately recognized as the head by his men, even if the Court of Review does not impute him this managerial role on the district.
In short, in one of the most violent districts of Palermo the battle is fought between the old Cosa Nostra and the new leaders of the mafia families.
With the "Bivio 2" operation, another hard blow to the San Lorenzo district 2021
By Giovanni Burgio
Giulio Caporrimo, arrested together with 7 other people on Wednesday, July 21, reaffirmed his power over the San Lorenzo - Tommaso Natale district thanks to the capillaries, almost obsessive, extortion carried out on the economic activities falling within his territory of competence.
There was no entrepreneur, trader, contract or business movement, who escaped the ‘putting in place’, the ‘subsidy to the prisoners’, the ‘Christmas gift’. Vincenzo Taormina, Antonino Vitamia, Vincenzo Billeci, imposed them punctually on those who worked in this part of Palermo.
Cosa Nostra: carpet extortion
If there was a new excavation work in Sferracavallo (another village in the so-called “Mandamento San Lorenzo-Tommaso Natale), it was necessary to immediately ascertain ‘to whom it belonged”; if renovations were being done in a school, it was necessary to pay the due; when a construction company resisted, a van was burned; if the owner of the
And some of these extortion and ‘concession of permission’ have had paradoxical if not even comic implications. There is the construction builder who protests with the boss for the failure to award the 780,000 euro contract; another owner of works who turns to other family heads to intercede on the “permission”; the small bar that pays the wrong man of the cosca; the owner of numerous garages who went to Caporrimo to get a discount, finds himself paying more because some of these activities
Eleven were the extortion ascertained by the investigations. Two entrepreneurs who rebelled and denounced.
Giuseppe Vassallo, owner of several agencies, would have paid Cosa Nostra 1,000 euros a week. In this case, however, the investigators say, it would not be a real extortion, but a collaboration between the owner of the betting points and the mafia organization.
Vassal, in fact, would have deliberately and continuously sought the bosses, both to obtain authorization to open other agencies, and to have greater commercial advantages from these illicit relations.
The internal war at Cosa Nostra
In the last ten years, the San Lorenzo – Tommaso Natale district has undergone as many as ten anti-mafia operations, and the last two, in January 2021 and this one in July, have the same name ‘Bivio’ for a specific reason. The affiliates and heads of household, in fact, are faced with a choice, at a crossroads: to follow the directives of the last Provincial Commission reconstituted in Baida on May 29, 2018, or to deny ‘the legitimacy’ of this new Dome?
Giulio Caporrimo has no doubts, and has quite clear ideas about it. He explained them to himself and out loud in his frequent soliloqui captured by the bedbugs installed in his machine: [b]“This is no longer Cosa Nostra. The Commission cannot make two or three mandates. And then they all repent, and they get scared. When you propose them to do something serious, they run away, they are afraid. They have shrunk like the stiddari. Cosa Nostra is now like Stidda. This is a Thing as it comes to us, as it appears to them. Cosa Nostra is like a field of gypsies.” [/b]
In fact, Caporrimo, out of prison, does not recognize the regent designated by the Commission, Francesco Palumeri, and, between 2019 and 2020, he leaves Florence for a few months. Returning to his territory, however, he is immediately recognized as the head by his men, even if the Court of Review does not impute him this managerial role on the district.
In short, in one of the most violent districts of Palermo the battle is fought between the old Cosa Nostra and the new leaders of the mafia families.