Extortion and kidnapping aggravated to traders, 9 arrests in Palermo

PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – The police carried out an order of precautionary custody, issued by the gip, against 9 people, of whom 8 are in prison and one under house arrest, all with police records, as they are held responsible, in competition between them and in various titles, of numerous episodes of extortion and aggravated robbery, damage and private violence, against different commercial activities of Palermo, between22 According to the investigators, the investigators would target the “Michelangelo-Borgo Nuovo” neighborhood, imposing “a regime of terror and fear in the owners and employees of different commercial exercises through continuous aggression and several incidents of damage to the premises of relevance to these activities”.

The investigations have allowed us to reconstruct a strongly indicative picture of the inquiries, accused of having vessatoed various commercial activities between Viale Michelangelo and the Borgo Nuovo district, imposing “the constant presence – especially at night time – and ingenerating a climate of terror towards the owners and employees of the commercial exercises, forced to yield to their claims, of co-responsion of any kind of consumption of which they had the availability of The investigative activity in question draws inspiration from the various complaints made by one of the owners of the exercises involved in the course of 2023, in which the same referred of the various episodes of injury to the damages of the employees and of damage of the premises, often immortalized by the cameras of the video surveillance systems of relevance of the same.

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