Police on Tuesday cleared another
council flat that had been occupied by a member of the Spada
mafia clan in the Rome seaside district of Ostia, following a
similar clearing last Thursday.
The operation was announced by Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi in a
tweet, in which she declared, "we won't give respite to those
who live in illegality".
On her Facebook page, Raggi said the home was occupied by the
partner and children of Silvano Spada, who is currently
incarcerated.
"After years of inaction, from the start of our mandate we
are checking illegally occupied council flats, to free them up
and give them to those who have a right to them and have been on
waiting lists for years," Raggi said.
Last Thursday's operation cleared a home occupied by Vincenzo
'Gnocco' Spada, the son of late clan boss 'Pelè'.
That operation came after a homemade bomb exploded last
Tuesday night at the Ostia home of the parents of a woman who
aided investigators in a Spada case, which resulted in the
arrest of 32 people.
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