The White Uno Gang when the cops are the criminals

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The White Uno Gang (Italian: Banda della Uno bianca) was a criminal organization operating in Italy, mainly in Emilia-Romagna. The name of the gang refers to the Fiat Uno car, a common city car which was frequently used by this gang, being particularly easy to steal and difficult to identify given its widespread usage in Italy at the time. Most of the gang members were police officers of far-right stances.Between 1987 and 1994, the gang pulled off 103 heists, mostly armed robberies, causing 24 deaths and 102 injuries.

The Members:

Roberto Savi was a cop and get life.

Alberto Soavi was a cop and get life.

Fabio Savi,the only one of the brothers to wasn't be a cop due to a vision problem, he worked as a truck driver.He get life.

Pietro Gugliotta,never participated in the murderous actions of the group. However, he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. He too was a cop, he worked as a radio operator in the Bologna police station together with his friend Roberto Savi. He was released from prison in 2008, after fourteen years of imprisonment, thanks to the pardon and the Gozzini law.

Marino Occhipinti,A minor member of the gang, however, he took part in an assault on a van of the Coop of Casalecchio di Reno, on February 19, 1988, during which a security guard died and for this he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He too was a cop at the Bologna mobile squad, at the time of his arrest on 29 November 1994, he was deputy superintendent of the narcotics section of the mobile squad. In a recent interview, Marino Occhipinti asked the relatives of the murdered security guard for forgiveness. Since 2002, he has been working in a cooperative

Luca Vallicelli,Policeman at the time of his arrest, which took place on November 29, 1994, he was an agent chosen at the Cesena Traffic Police section. A minor member of the gang, he only participated in the first robberies, which ended without murder. He bargained for three years and eight months in prison, and is currently a free man, dismissed by the State Police.

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January 30,1988 - Giampiero Picello, a security guard in Rimini, was killed during a robbery in a supermarket.

February 20,1988 - Carlo Beccari, a supermarket security guard in Casalecchio di Reno was killed. Francesco Cataldi, a colleague of Beccari, is wounded.

April 20,1988, two carabinieri, Cataldo Stasi and Umberto Erriu, were killed while they were in a car park in Castel Maggiore, near Bologna, after they had stopped the car of the Savi.For this murder, misdirections by a carabiniere were found out.

June 26,1989, during a robbery in a supermarket in the Corticella frazione of Bologna, Adolfino Alessandri, 52-year-old pensioner eyewitness was riddled with shots.

July 29,1989 - the inspector Antonio Mosca died to the gunfire injuries happened in 1987 after the police tried to arrest the Savi brothers that was trying to extort a Rimini resident, Savino Grossi that asked help to the police.

On January15,1990 - Giancarlo Armorati was seriously hit in Via Mazzini in Bologna, during a robbery at a post office that wounded many others. He will die a year later from his injuries.

October 6,1990 - Primo Zecchi, who noted the number of the criminals' license plate, was killed.

December 23,1990, the gang opens fire on the caravans of the gypsy camp of Bologna in via Gobetti, killing two victims (Rodolfo Bellinati and Patrizia Della Santina) and injuring others.

December 27,1990 two people were killed in two different episodes of violence. Luigi Pasqui, a 50-year-old merchant, was killed in a robbery at a Castel Maggiore petrol station while he was trying to sound the alarm. A few minutes later the gang killed Paride Pedini, who had approached the white Uno he found abandoned with open doors.

The Pilastro Massacre (1991) On 4 January at around 10 pm, in the Pilastro district of Bologna, a patrol of carabinieri was fired upon by the criminal group.The gang was in that place by chance, on their way to San Lazzaro di Savena, looking for a car to steal. In via Casini the gang's car was overtaken by the patrol and the maneuver was interpreted by the criminals as an attempt to register the plate number and it was decided to liquidate the carabinieri.
After having flanked them, Roberto Savi fired some bullets at the soldiers, on the driver Otello Stefanini's side.Despite the serious injuries suffered, the carabinieri tried to escape, but crashed into rubbish bins. In a short time the car of the carabinieri was hit by a shower of bullets.The other two carabinieri, Andrea Moneta and Mauro Mitilini, managed to get out of the car and to respond to the fire, injuring Roberto Savi. The power of the weapons used by the gang, however, left no hope and both the carabinieri remained on the asphalt. The three ended up with a shot to the back of the head.

April 20,1991 - Claudio Bonfiglioli was killed in Borgo Panigale during a robbery in his petrol station.

May 2,1991 - in a gun store in Bologna, Licia Ansaloni, owner of the shop, and Pietro Capolungo, retired carabiniere, are killed.

June 19,1991 - Graziano Mirri, father of a policeman, loses his life in Cesena, killed in front of his wife during a robbery in his petrol station in Viale Marconi.

August 18,1991 - Ndiaj Malik and Babou Chejkh, two Senegalese labourers, were killed in an ambush in San Mauro Mare, frazione of San Mauro Pascoli, while a third one, Madiaw Diaw, was wounded.The attack is motivated by racist convictions of the gang members.

February 24,1993 - the gang is responsible for the murder of Massimiliano Valenti,a 21-year-old boy who had watched a car change after a bank robbery. The gang kidnapped the young man and then transported him to an isolated area where he was executed.

October 7,1993 - Carlo Poli an electrician was killed in the Riale frazione of Zola Predosa.

May 24,1994 - the director of the Cassa di Risparmio bank of Pesaro Ubaldo Paci was shot dead while he was opening at a quarter past eight in the morning.