Palermo, migrant smuggling: Fatmir, the boss in a wheelchair

Even though he was in a wheelchair, Fatmir Ljatifi, the Macedonian, was playing basketball in a wheelchair and running a criminal badociation. Arrived in Sicily to live with a girl, he had moved to Bolognetta, a city in the hinterland of Palermo, and had managed in a few years to create a criminal badociation aimed at smuggling migrants and weapons from the Balkans to money laundering. , diamonds and gold. He did not have a stable job, he was content with gimmicks and continued to cultivate his pbadion for basketball so much that he continued to play in a wheelchair too. Palermo Palermo team. Last February, he graduated as the winter champion of the Serie B championship group D, the one where he plays the formations of Sicily, Calabria, Campania and Puglia.

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He was paralyzed from the stomach after being wounded in a fighting fire more than ten years ago in northern Italy. A settlement of accounts between the rival gangs of Kosovar immigrants of the first wave, the one that in the late nineties arrived in Lombardy and Veneto. He, a giant of thirty years with a good career as a basketball player, was forced to a long rehabilitation, then to meet with the young Sicilian and the decision to move. In Palermo, there is little contact with the exhibitors of Cosa Nostra. He sells his knowledge in Macedonia and Kosovo to the best of his knowledge, and guarantees the clans the supply of arms. He knows how to move, keeps in touch with other Macedonians in Italy who handle illegal traffic.

Then he decides to make the jump in quality, he wants to install Skopje to 47 years old and use Sicily to recycle money, diamonds and gold. Weapons continue to be his main business, to which he also adds illegal immigration. Always Balkans, a territory that knows well and often reached by car, even in a wheelchair. In Kosovo and Macedonia, he carries out reports to recycle mountains of banknotes cleaned by the indelible ink of bribes, he strives to obtain from the Neapolitan chain of counterfeiters the holograms to apply on stained banknotes (over one million euros). But above all, it feels the big blow of the residence permit to obtain thanks to the debit decree of the Bossi-Fini law. It creates a ghost society that should have inspired the workers and in the cases of Kosovo and Macedonia. He was convinced that he was immune from any investigation, even for his disability. Who would have thought to investigate a man in a wheelchair? The night blitz at his home in Bolognetta ended the ambitions of Fatmir, the basketball player, with a pbadion for criminal trafficking.