Inter, AC Milan Ultras to be tried for accusations of organized crime | Soccer News

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Among those who expect trial are Renato Bosetti and Luca Lucci, the two chiefs of Inter and Milan Ultras when they were arrested in September.

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More than a dozen unconditional fans of AC Milan and Inter Milan go to trial on Tuesday facing a series of positions related to organized crime after an investigation into the alleged illegal activities of the so -called “ultras” groups of the teams of the series A.

A bunker room next to the imposing prison of San Vittor in downtown Milan will organize a fast -track trial for 16 of the 19 people arrested last year by serious crimes, including the criminal conspiracy aggravated by the methods of the mafia, a position generally reserved for the most powerful criminal organizations in the country.

The alleged crimes involve activities around the iconic San Siro stadium in the days, from the promotion of tickets to the parking control, the sales of the concession stalls and the payment of the people without tickets and let them enter the stadium.

Among those who expect trial are Renato Bosetti and Luca Lucci, the two chiefs of Inter and Milan Ultras when they were arrested in September.

Bosetti took control of the “Curve Nord” section of the San Siro, where the Inter Ultras are after the murder of Antonio Bellocco, a murder that was shocking due to the state of Bellocco as a row of a Ndrangheta mafia family in the southern region of Calabria that carries its burner.

Bellocco was stabbed until death by Andrea Beretta, who has a long criminal record and together with Marco Ferdico led the inter ultras before Bosetti, weeks before the arrests.

Both Beretta, who was already in prison for the murder of Bellocco at the time of arrests, as a Ferganic are among those who will be tried on Tuesday.

Beretta killed Bellocco during an altercation outside a boxing gym in a suburb of Milan, and since then has begun to collaborate with the authorities.

‘Keep away from your compatriots’

Prosecutors accuse Beretta and Ferdico to bring Bellocco, who before his death was the only serious gangster among those investigated, so the trio could leave other groups aside: the violent Hooligans linked to the extreme right, after the former head of the head and the criminal of the race, Vittorio Boiocchi, was shot dead outside his home in October 2022.

Supposedly, he was also in his place to stop other groups of serious crimes that broke into the ultras money manufacturing activities, and Bellocco was counted in one of the guests of the telephone listeners collected by the researchers: “You do what you need to do … keep their compatriots away (companions of Calabrian mafia).”

The Italian media widely reported at the time of their murder at age 69, that Boiocchi had boasted in alert conversations about winning 80,000 euros ($ 88,000) per month through their position as ultra leader.

However, the collection documents seen by AFP do not contain the type of surprising figures that organizations such as’ ndrangheta families bring with more traditional criminal activities such as drug and weapons trafficking and money laundering through legitimate businesses.

The rapid trial, known as “abbreviation” is a legal procedure in the Italian law in which the defendants judged on the basis of the evidence presented by the prosecutors, without any debate on that evidence of legal teams that represent the defense and the Prosecutor’s Office.

The accused of criminal crimes are guaranteed that their sentences will be cut by a third if they will be convicted, but it is not necessarily an admission of guilt as sometimes it was thought.

The fast track procedure allows the essays to be completed in a much shorter space of time than the years of the ordinary judicial procedure, under which the remaining three people arrested in September began their judgment last month.

That trio includes Francesco Lucci, who often took care of the Milan Ultras during the frequent problems of his brother Luca Lucci with the law for crimes that include drug trafficking and the assault of an Inter fan who was blinded in the attack and then committed suicide.

None of the clubs were accused in relation to the crimes alleged by the investigators, while the ultras of Milan in the trial are not accused of crimes related to the mafia.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED union news agency – AFP)