Alleged old ties with "Tonino the Fisherman", the deputy mayor of Castellaneta in the crosshairs

Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 05:00
CASTELLANETA - Lido «La Marea» and alleged old ties between the deputy mayor of Castellaneta Edo Sanarico and the criminal Tonino Vitale, known as “the Fisherman”: the opposition council asks the mayor Gianni Di Pippa to intervene and use the same yardstick that, about a year ago, cost the resignation of former councilor Antonio D'Ambrosio, guilty of having collaborated with Vitale to organize a tournament on the beach. «On social media - the opposition reported - Vitale publicly declared, with names, contexts and precise details, that the current deputy mayor and his mother would have asked him for electoral support in March 2023, shortly before becoming deputy mayor. We recall that Vitale had previously been publicly labeled by mayor Di Pippa as "a person capable of negatively influencing the political life of Castellaneta due to his alleged criminal caliber". And in this regard Di Pippa also left for Rome to report at a hearing of the Anti-Mafia Commission"....
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