«When I told… that Gennaro Ramondino wanted to start his own business, he replied: “Now that he comes I’ll kill him”».
This is how Domenico Di Napoli reconstructed for investigators the hours preceding the murder of “Genny”, killed by 16-year-old P. in the basement used as a drug dealing square in via Comunale Napoli in Pianura. There was a lot of tension among the drug traffickers in the neighborhood orbiting around the Marsicano group, of which Massimiliano Santagata had become regent after the arrest of Emanuele Marsicano.
But the cold-blooded murder of the 20-year-old from Fuorigrotta, last September 1st. A substantially closed case, without prejudice to the presumption of innocence of the suspects until a final conviction.
"In order not to create confusion in the drug dealing area and for fear that... he might do what he had threatened, I told him that he shouldn't allow himself to do such a thing. It seemed that he had listened to me, but at that point, since we had a 9x21 pistol in the basement, for fear that he might use it, I took it into my house, upstairs. P. saw me. I went up and put the gun on the coat rack at the entrance, specifying that I always leave the door of the house open when the drug dealing area is in operation. From 9 pm to 1 am I didn't see P. anymore, but I knew he was downstairs. I have cameras in the house and therefore I can see the people arriving."
"At one o'clock - continued Domenico Di Napoli - Glovo called because the ordered sandwiches were ready and I went out to pick them up. When I returned I saw Gennaro Ramondino, Nunzio Rizzo and Paolo Equabile arriving in a car. When I entered the house I saw P. at the door. The time to take the sandwiches to the kitchen and I heard the gun being cocked, so I understood that he had taken possession of it. He quickly went down the stairs, I chased him. P. pointed the gun at Gennaro Ramondino's chest and shot several times".
The 16-year-old, originally from the Traiano district, is a self-confessed criminal and is the only suspect accused of murder. Di Napoli will have to answer for aiding and abetting and destruction of a corpse.
