Mafia: 25 sentences for the Società Foggiana clan

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November 26, 2020 Fifty euros per funeral, 500 euros per week for the management of a nightclub.

"Requests", so to speak, accompanied by threats of death, assaults and explosions.

It is a part of the business managed by the Società Foggiana clan.

Today the Bari court sentenced 25 members allegedly affiliated with the clan to 18 years in prison.

The judge, at the end of the trial celebrated with the abbreviated procedure, also sentenced the defendants to compensate the civil parties: an entrepreneur victim of extortion, ended up under escort after having reported his tormentors and, for the first time, they did, towards the Foggia mafia, the associations of entrepreneurs Confindustria Puglia and Foggia.

Civil parties of the Puglia Region, the Municipality of Foggia, the Puglia Antiracket Foundation and the 'Panunzio' association of Foggia.

The highest sentence, 18 years of imprisonment, was imposed on the convicted Francesco Tizzano.

14 to the clan leaders Vito Bruno Lanza and Roberto Sinesi known as “the uncle”, at 11 years and 4 months Rocco Moretti known as “the pig”.

The investigations of the Dia di Bari have dismantled the turnover controlled by the criminal organization.

From 2015 to 2018, 50 euros were asked for a funeral in the case of a funeral home, 500 euros for the control and management of a nightclub.

Then there was the hiring of trusted people in the RSA.

"Requests", so to speak, accompanied by death threats, armed attacks, even damaging companies with explosions.

"Foggia fights and does not give up, the Foggia community is today representative of the whole of Puglia that will never yield to the mafia, to oppression, violence, illegality. The Puglia Region is alongside citizens, magistrates, Police forces of the province of Foggia without ifs and buts. ”These are the words of the president of Puglia Emiliano who adds:“ Today every Apulian feels Foggia in this day of Justice and not of revenge ”.