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25 January 2018A series of telephone and environmental interceptions, plus the declarative contribution of four collaborators of justice: this is how the police and the carabinieri, coordinated by the Dda of Rome, have cleared the Spada clan with 32 precautionary measures, signed by the investigating judge, which has disputed in various capacities the criminal association of mafia type "which makes use of the force of intimidation of the associative bond and of the condition of subjugation and of silence that it derives, in order to commit crimes of murder, extortion, usury, possession and port of weapons and explosives, aggravated fire and damage, and other crimes against the person, drug trafficking, fictitious attribution of assets and to acquire, directly and indirectly, the management and control of economic activities, concessions, of authorizations, contracts and public services, the control of bathing activities on the lidense coast, of game rooms and comm exercises of various types of finance, financing them with the price, the product and the profit of the offenses of extortion, usury and drug trafficking and to make unjust profits or advantages for the achievement and maintenance of the 'association' aims.

At the top of the clan is Carmine Spada, 51, known as Romoletto, believed by those who investigate the leader, and promoter of the organization, responsible for issuing orders and directives regarding the control of the territory, the facts of blood, the management of activities crime of extortion, usury, drug trafficking and possession and delivery of firearms and control of the economic activities of bathing, catering and amusement arcades on the Ostia coast managed either directly or through nominees by the organization.

Then there is his brother, the 43-year-old Roberto Spada (the one of the magazine to the journalist Daniele Piervincenzi), who shares with Carmine the strategic choices of the association and has decision-making power. Another brother of Carmine is Ottavio Spada known as Maciste or Romolo, from 1963, with functions of organization of the association: he also works in first person for the collection of sums due to the organization in the form of extortion and usury. Armando Spada, 51, also with the function of organizing the association, oversees the sector of control of economic activities and the management of fictitious headers, and also carries out organizational functions in relation to the wear and extortion sector.

Then there is another Ottavio Spada, born in 1989, who moves within the sectors of drugs, weapons and intimidation, in which sectors he performs both coordination and direct operations functions; then Nando and Francesco, known as Ube De Silvio, also with powers of coordination in the field of drugs and extortion. Other Spadas, such as Silvano and his brother Massimiliano and later Vittorio, known as Manolo, brother of Ottavio, known as Marco, participate in the association by operating in the arms, intimidation and drug sectors. Roberto and Daniele Pergola act as organizers of the association, supporting Carmine Spada in controlling the territory and the drug market in the Piazza Gasparri area in Ostia (delegated by the boss).

The list of those arrested included Massimo Massimiani, known as Lelli, who has support functions in the exercise of violence and in the field of drugs, Nader Amna Saber Abdelgawad known as the Egyptian and Nelson Ruben Alvez Del Puerto (Roberto Spada's bodyguard and already in prison for the aggression to the Rai troupe of 'Nemo - Nobody excluded') are active in the sector 'weapons, violence and intimidation'. Again, Roberto Spada, known as Zibba and Enrico Spada, known as Maciste or Macistino, children of Ottavio, known as Romolo, Francesco and Juan Carlos, sons of Armando Spada, are other elements of the criminal society, collect sums of money and act in the drug sector. Other precautionary measures were signed by the investigating magistrate against Saber Maglioli, Ramy and Samy Serour, Fabio Fabi, Fabrizio Rutilo, Mauro Caramia, Mauro Carfagna, Stefano De Dominicis called Child, Claudio Galatioto, Claudio Fiore, Alessandro Rossi, Roberto Sassi known as Alaskino and Carlo Franzese.





The investigating judge: mafia clan that has degraded the territory
"A mafia-type criminal association, such as that of the Spada, which caused profound degradation in the territory, allowing the spread of very serious crimes damaging primary goods". This is what is claimed by the investigating judge Simonetta D'Alessandro in the order with which he signed 32 precautionary orders against as many belonging to the clan that operates in the Ostia area. According to the investigators, the Spada have set up "a partnership that has based its power on a family-based organization and on the division of competences, allowing the group of subjects called to respond even to satellite crimes only to gravitate to a area of ​​impunity, arising from the evocative and threatening force of the Spada name ".

"The investigative activity traces the last decade of investigations carried out in the territory of Ostia - writes the judge - and highlights the now profound penetration of organized crime in the economic activities of the coast". For the investigating magistrate, there has been "ongoing, for years now, a continuous repositioning of the zones of influence, as can be seen from the uninterrupted series of attacks and intimidating acts that have affected the coast". Among these "stands out the cardinalization of Massimo Cardoni, which took place in Ostia, but above all the double homicide to the detriment of Giovanni Galleoni undisputed head of the Baficchio clan, and of Francesco Antonini, committed in 2011 in Ostia, by the Spada clan".

For the investigating judge, these events marked the progressive erosion of the Baficchio's criminal power (a criminal family organization also based on the Galleoni-Cardoni families), and the definitive rise of the Spada clan ".

The investigating judge: prison to stop criminal escalation
The precautionary measure to be applied can only be identified "in custody in prison, unique and suitable to guarantee the immediate interruption of the criminal escalation in progress". Thus the investigating judge Simonetta D'Alessandro in the order with which he ordered the prison for 32 people, all belonging to the Spada clan. For the magistrate, detention in prison appears "proportionate to the gravity of the facts, to the penalties that can actually be imposed, certainly exceeding three years of imprisonment".