Carmelo Terranova, 72 years old, a prominent member of the Aparo gang of Syracuse and sentenced to three life sentences for murder, was placed under house arrest in his home in Floridia, in the Syracuse area. His lawyer, the lawyer. Antonio Meduri, has filed for release for health reasons to the Bari Surveillance Court. And the magistrate, having ascertained the precarious state of health of the detainee, already the victim of a heart attack, also for the Covid 19 emergency, ordered the release .
Terranova was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of Salvatore Pernagallo di Francofonte on 7 April 1992, of Salvatore Navarra, former driver of the mayor of Canicattini, in 1992 and for the massacre of San Marco, in September 1992.
In 2015 Terranova was always been released for health reasons. But after some time according to the police, his apartment would become the meeting place for members of the mafia gang.