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17 January 2020 The fight against organized crime today in Foggia passes through the committee for public order and security, open to citizenship, carried out in the classrooms of the Department of Letters of the Dauno capital. Also present was the extraordinary commissioner of the government for the coordination of anti-racket and anti-usury initiatives, Annapaola Porzio.

Porzio: "If we support this city, we will win"
"I wanted to testify a concrete and continuous closeness to the two Vigilante brothers, Cristian and Luca, whom I hope to be able to certify also with the solidarity committee and, therefore, with the disbursement of the fund as soon as they make an application. We are following them for this and we will be very close to them ". Commissioner Porzio said, who then added: "It is a difficult moment. I do not know if there will be new intimidating acts. I am just saying that the intimidating acts that should come evidently represent a state of unease for these criminals and we cannot do it back. If we continue to fight, to support this city and its people, we will be able to win. It is enough to see the experience of other centers also in Foggiano such as Vieste, which have managed to eradicate this phenomenon within their community ".

The prefect of Foggia
Strengthened personal security measures against Cristian and Luca Vigilante, the brothers victims of the bomb attacks that took place yesterday against the "Il Sorriso di Stefano" day care center for the elderly and on January 3 last when a bomb was detonated under a company car parked in the street. The decision was made yesterday evening at the end of a prefecture meeting during which the two victims were heard in the presence of Commissioner Porzio. On the investigation front, investigators leave no trace behind. The Vigilante brothers, witnesses in an investigation by the DDA of Bari against the Foggia mafia, declared to the investigators that they had not received extortion requests in recent times.

The footage of the attack
Police scrutinize footage from security cameras at the senior center. The criminal action would last less than a minute and a hooded man would clearly be seen placing the bomb at the foot of the gate.

Prosecutor Volpe asks for more staff
The announcement arrived yesterday by the Interior Ministry, from 15 February, of an operational section of the Dia in Foggia, reporting directly to the Bari Operations Center, "is a response that can be effective if the staff of the new structure that is created in Foggia they will be taken out of the district of Bari, because if instead they will be stolen from the police forces that are already present in the territory, then we risk rather doing damage ". The Bari District Attorney, Giuseppe Volpe said this, stressing that "the organic endowment of the operational section, as it is written in a circular of the Interior Ministry, will be about 20 units, of which 15 newly assigned to the DIA (5 for each Force of police); the remaining personnel will be identified among those already in service at the Dia ".