• Foggia, trader killed in an ambush with two gunshots

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04 January 2020A rudimentary device was detonated under an SUV on the outskirts of Foggia, in the third attack since the beginning of the year in the Apulian capital. The explosion, which occurred in the Artisans Village area, destroyed the vehicle and damaged other parked cars, also shattering the glass of some windows and balconies of houses that are located in the building under which the explosion occurred.

The loud roar was reported in several other areas of the city and firefighters and police officers intervened on the spot. The owner of the Range Rover half-destroyed by the bomb attack is an executive of an RSA (health care residence), who denounced two alleged mobsters from Foggia for extortion in the investigation called "tenth action".

In November 2018, the investigation led to the arrest of 30 people among alleged affiliates and leaders of the Foggia organized crime, for which the trial is underway. The man denounced that he had been the victim of an extortion by the two men who wanted to force him to hire a person they indicated in the RSA. According to what has been learned, the man heard by the investigators allegedly did not know what was behind the attack. According to reports from some residents of via D'Aragona it would not be the first time that the victim suffered damage and intimidating purpose to the car. The explosion last night damaged the man's SUV but also six other nearby cars and caused the windows of some houses to break, without causing injuries.

Since the beginning of the year it has been the third attack in the city: two bars had been set on fire on the night between 31 December and 1 January. Last night, however, still on the outskirts of Foggia, a 53-year-old man, Roberto D'Angelo, was killed in Viale Candelaro, while he was aboard his killer car who joined him on a motorcycle. D'Angelo was a car dealer with distant precedents for property crime and in 2016 he had been the victim of intimidation.