The Gup of the Court of Bari Giovanni Anglana sentenced 25 alleged affiliates of the Foggia mafia to sentences of up to 18 years of imprisonment, accused, in various capacities, of mafia association, extortion and aggravated robbery, illegal possession of weapons and attempted murder.
At the end of the trial celebrated with the shortened procedure, the judge also sentenced the defendants to compensate the civil parties, an entrepreneur victim of extortion, who ended up under escort after having reported his torturers, Puglia Region, Municipality of Foggia, Confindustria Puglia , Confindustria Foggia, Antiracket Puglia Foundation and the 'Panunzio' association of Foggia.
At the reading of the device, in the bunker room of Bitonto, in addition to the lawyers of the defendants and civil parties and the defendants, connected by video-conference from various Italian prisons, the prosecutors of the DDA who coordinated the investigations, Lidia Giorgio and Federico Perrone Capano, the deputy Francesco Giannella and the acting attorney Roberto Rossi.
