Cops among 4 arrested for Vassallo murder

A Carabiniere and a retired
Carabiniere, a Camorra boss turned informant's son and a
businessmen were arrested Thursday in the 2010 Camora mafia
murder of Angelo Vassallo, the so-called 'fisherman-mayor' of
the seaside village of Pollica in southern Campania, who had
denounced a local drug trafficking ring allegedly involving
cops.

   
Vassallo, 57, was gunned down outside his home on September 5,
2010, having openly fought organized crime and building
speculators who have marred coasts and countryside all over the
Mezzogiorno.

   
Among his many battles to protect environmental and
cultural heritage along Italy's lovely Cilento coast, Vassallo
had denounced to police a drug trafficking ring operating around
Pollica that was found to have been run by a Calabrian
'Ndrangheta mafia clan from the Cosenza area.

   
Those arrested Thursday were: Carabinieri officer Fabio
Cagnazzo; the son of the boss and police informant Romolo
Ridosso of the Camorra Scafati Loreto-Ridosso clan; businessman
Giuseppe Ciprian; and former Carabinieri brigadier Lazzaro
Cioffi.

   

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