![]() In one recent wiretap, he had boasted about making €80,000 a month. So Boiocchi’s murder has once again turned the spotlight on to the ultra world and its overlap with organised crime. He had been an informant for the secret services, revealing to them the infiltration of far-right extremists and the ’Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, into the Juventus terraces. In July 2016, Ciccio Bucci, a shunned former boss of the dominant Juventus ultras, the Drughi (an Italianisation of the Droogs of A Clockwork Orange fame) was either murdered or committed suicide from a high viaduct connecting Turin to Cuneo. He, too, had been involved in large drug deals and was attempting to carve out a space for himself in the crowded Roman underworld. Diabolik was the boss of the Irriducibili, the undisputed top dogs of the Lazio terraces. In August 2019, Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik, was murdered with a single shot to his temple as he sat in a park in Rome. The murder of lo Zio wasn’t the first professional hit on a c apo-ultrà. When stopped, he was at the wheel of a stolen car which contained handcuffs, a taser and a Guardia di Finanza bib. Photograph: last arrest was in March 2021 when – with lockdowns having dented his match income – he was intercepted by police as he was about to kidnap a Milanese businessman.
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