Police in February arrested Giuseppe Battaglia, Antonino Ciresi, Maurizio Lucchese, and Alfredo Perricone on charges of attempted extortion with Mafia purposes. They allegedly required Giunta to pay 2,000 euros every Easter and every Christmas “into a prisoners’ families fund”. Since then, Giunta has received several “messages”: his restaurant was wrecked twice, a tank of petrol was left at his door, and a gang of four men drove up to his family home and spoke to his mother. “I call on everyone to say no to extortion”, he added. “If there are a lot of us, it will have to stop”.

Source: www.ansa.it