'Ndrangheta boss arrested thanks to the coronavirus decree

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https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/ ... 251136680/

Carabinieri followed a person who brought him food in the town of Bruzzano Zefiro, deserted by the decree against contagion. Cesare Antonio Cordì, 42, is a prominent member of the clan of Locri.

Betrayed by the "Rest at home" decree. The hiding of Cesare Antonio Cordì, the 42-year-old emerging boss of the homonymous clan of Locri, sought after last August, when he escaped the shirts of Operation Riscatto is over. The man was hiding in an anonymous house in an isolated district of Bruzzano Zeffirio, a small town in the Locride area not far from the historic fiefdom of the clan. But with the streets emptied by the last Conte decree and the patrols around to verify that the requirements are respected, the police did not escape suspicious movements in that district, that should be semi-uninhabited.They immediately thought of Cordì.
On him, the carabinieris of Locri and Bianco, with the support of the provincial command, had been working for some time. They had understood that, like many fugitives from 'Ndrangheta, Cordì had not strayed far from his fiefdom. And in times of forced isolation to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the need to secure food and other basic necessities has betrayed it.
Investigators didn't believe the explanations of a man, stopped with bags and boxes of food, convincing himself by saying that he "had to bring the shopping to a friend's house". But they waited the night to investigate and verify for themselves who the mysterious friend was, residing in a house on paper that had been uninhabited for years.
Son of Antonio , Cordì is a character on the rise in the ferocious clan of Locri, recently hit hard by the Operation Riscatto .
Dynamic photograph of a mafia oppression that has lasted for decades despite arrests and convictions, the investigation revealed that in Locri the Cordì s continued to control everything from the distribution of bread to funeral services and cemetery, from construction sites to commercial activities. And Cesare Antonio Cordì had a role in that regime. Accused of fraudulent transfer of values, aggravated by having favored the mafia association, the 42-year-old is considered one of the new "heads" of the organization. But his escape did not last long.