Squadrons of men with Kalashnikovs clutched in their hands, alternating with baseball bats and spiked clubs. Bloody beatings in the middle of the street, with victims subjected to atrocious violence; kicked, punched, barred. The members of the AK-47 Carpi association posted their every action on social networks, in order to show their power and predominance but also to make it clear to those who tried to ‘escape’ their diktats that they had plenty of weapons and the videos of ‘bosses’ of the association in Pakistan proved it. The network itself was one of the key elements of the investigation into the criminal association busted by the agents of the Modena police station. In fact, the analysis of the information present in various social networks, acquired by the expert men of the Digos, made it possible to identify the entire “AK47 Carpi or AK47 Gang” group. In the profiles of the members of the association there were some videos and photographs in which the members of the group showed themselves in threatening attitudes, holding sticks and clubs and on several occasions flaunting large amounts of money and luxury cars. Several times, but for short periods of time, especially the main representative of the association posted images on their profiles in which the group held firearms, in particular automatic rifles of the AK-47 Kalashnikov type, with the clear intention of flaunting their supremacy and instill further and profound fear towards ‘controlled’ workers. It was precisely the complaint from a worker, Si Cobas company union representative, that gave impetus to the investigations. In April 2021, the man showed up at the Polyclinic after being severely beaten by members of the association. They had hit him with pieces of marble, rubbish bins and other objects for reasons he said were linked to trade union activity but also to racial reasons: he did not respect the Muslim religion. The episode, it emerged, had occurred during a coordination meeting of SI.Cobas: the young man had turned his back on that group within the union whose behavior was absolutely contrary to the ideology of the union, since it gave rise to episodes of violence and threats, according to the victim, fueling a corrupt system. For this reason, twenty of them had beaten him to the point of causing injuries lasting 166 days. All were then suspended. Most of the suspects were employees of a logistics services company linked to the movement of goods based in the Vicenza area, which contracts out the courier workforce in Modena companies. There was a privileged relationship between the main contact person of the group and the one who, according to the investigators, is the hidden administrator of the Vicenza company, who was also under investigation. By virtue of this relationship, the members would thus have given rise to the gangmaster activity. According to the accusations, the suspects then used the SI.Cobas union for their own economic purposes. “We have always fought battles to guarantee rights and dignity to workers and we certainly cannot pretend nothing has happened: for us these, if confirmed, are unacceptable things – says Tiziano Loreti, Si Cobas Modena coordinator –. I knew some of these people because we worked a dispute together, being coordinator of Modena but we certainly didn’t imagine there was such a situation. If the facts were like this, they would certainly represent a big problem. The first thing we did today (yesterday, ed.) was to send a certified e-mail to the companies involved, stating that among our members there are those arrested, they are suspended with immediate effect. Obviously we have distanced ourselves from what happened because it is unimaginable for us – he continues – as emerges from the documents and there will certainly be control and supervision.
Valentina Reggiani
2024-05-01 10:07:42
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