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'Ndrangheta, the plan to kill Raffaele Moscato. "If he hadn't repented he would have died"
The collaborator Marziano tells of the intentions of the Piscopisani to kill the repentant even before he started collaborating
Published: 10/16/2024 – 7:00
VIBO VALENTIA A murder plan against Raffaele Moscato , well before the Piscopisani member decided to collaborate with justice. This is what Renato Marziano, another member of the Piscopio clan who decided to collaborate in 2018, says, but whose reports have only been made public now with the Porto Salvo investigation. Among the reasons for his decision, for which Marziano had stated that he "felt betrayed" and no longer believed in the ideals of the 'ndrangheta, was also the decision, endorsed by the clan's leaders, to kill Raffaele Moscato, someone who had "given his life for the Piscopisani, without ever betraying them". A murder plan that, however, never came to fruition, also because of Moscato's decision to repent, a choice that in fact "saved" his life.
Raffaele Moscato – Collaborator of Justice
Moscato's Criminal Rise
The plan, Marziano specifies, would have matured before Moscato's collaboration. So much so that in a joke caught by the collaborator of justice in a conversation, it was said that " it would have been better that he had become a repentant otherwise he would have died ". The authorization for the ambush had also arrived from the clan's top brass, but as for the material executors, Marziano replies, "I don't know who had been designated". The intentions to kill him arose from the fact that Moscato "was disliked because together with Rosario Battaglia and Michele Fiorillo "Zarrillo" they had organized the murder of Pantaleone Mancuso, known as "scarpuni"". A murder that, if carried out, would certainly have allowed Moscato to climb the hierarchy within the 'ndrangheta, raising both his talent and " the respect of the other 'ndrine ". In addition, it would have also allowed him to reach the Società Maggiore and, consequently, "the duty to kill further would have disappeared for him".
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Pantaleone Mancuso “Scarpuni”
The plan to kill “Scarpuni”
Reasons why Moscato would have been “unpopular” within the gang itself. First of all, by the alleged boss Nazzareno Fiorillo, also against the death of “Scarpuni” because he was “well aware of the fact that this would have opened a further front beyond the one that was in place with the Patanias”. Fiorillo would not have appreciated the criminal rise of Moscato, who would have thus “ overtaken in criminal consideration ” Fiorillo himself. The latter, as Marziano says, “could not put his veil on the project because it was also promoted by Michele Fiorillo “Zarrillo” who is still the one who had been invested as head of the company”. The Fiarès would also have intervened, in vain, to try to make the young Piscopisans desist from the murder of “Scarpuni”. The ambush, however, would have failed because, despite the stakeout already prepared, “Mancuso had not passed by where they presumed”. Since the murder of “Scarpuni” had failed, the plan to kill Moscato would have also stopped, also due to his subsequent collaboration. ( Ma.Ru. )
