Ruoppolo Teleacras - Mafia nel nisseno, 11 arresti

Angelo Ruoppolo's Teleacras Agrigento report (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Angelo-...) from December 29, 2009. Anti-mafia raid in the Nisseno area, 11 arrests. (For the high-quality video, click on HQ at the bottom right of the screen.) Here's the text: Here's a farmhouse. It belongs to the Mastrosimone family of Sommatino. And a Carabinieri jeep outside. Then there are the soldiers on the stairs. Here, in the countryside of Sommatino, in the "Mintina" district, in the province of Caltanissetta, a murder was allegedly committed. Caltanissetta's Chief Prosecutor, Sergio Lari, confirmed: "Yes, the victim was expected at the farmhouse, and the Carabinieri stopped her on a pretext, thus preventing her from being killed." The spontaneous question. And who was the victim? According to the Prosecutor's Office and the Carabinieri of Nissa, the killers' target was the owner of a funeral home in San Cataldo, Stefano Mosca, 44, nephew of the alleged town boss. An alleged criminal group, aggressive and armed, including with hand grenades, was ready to throw down the gauntlet. The targets were the mafia bosses of Sommatino and San Cataldo. "Kill them to take their place." The raid foiled, just in time, the alleged plans for blood and death. The alleged clan leader, Cosimo Di Forte, 31, from San Cataldo, a driver, was arrested. Patrizio Calabrò, 38, from Sommatino, a farmer. Gioacchino Mastrosimone, 47, from Sommatino, a shepherd. Salvatore Mastrosimone, 25, from Sommatino, a shepherd. Liborio Gianluca Pillitteri, 21, from Sommatino, a pizza chef. Enzo Mancuso, 34, from Canicattì, a shepherd. Maria Indorato, 47, from Sommatino. Giuseppe Taverna, 23, from Barrafranca. Salvatore Lombardo, 32, from Marianopoli. Calogero Ferrara, 21, from San Cataldo. And Agata Cianci, 18, from Sommatino, wife of Salvatore Mastrosimone, was caught in possession of a revolver with a partially obliterated serial number and ammunition. The 11 are charged with mafia association and possession of weapons. In the same farmhouse, in a sheepfold, as seen in the photographs, the Carabinieri discovered an arsenal: four revolvers, a semi-automatic pistol with a silencer, two sawn-off shotguns, two hunting rifles, a hand grenade, and 200 rounds of ammunition of various calibers for pistols, revolvers, and rifles. Ballistic tests underway.