Cosimo Di Lauro died in prison on 13 June 2022, whilst under the 41-bis prison regime, as a result of physical deterioration. He was 48 years old.[15] Di Lauro's funeral was held in a private ceremony in Secondigliano on 21 June, 2022. According to the media, his brothers did not attend the funeral.[16][17]

Cosimo Di Lauro, the first ambush of the 'black prince' against a Licciardi man
By Enrico Biasi
January 5, 2025

Salvatore Tamburrino and Cosimo Di Lauro
According to a repentant, the boss's baptism of fire against Lomasto
There are moments when criminal history jumps the border and overflows into the epic. And there are characters who take the same path, sometimes even without wanting to. It's a question of charisma. Criminal, of course. Cosimo Di Lauro was one of these. Media-oriented, ferocious, vengeful. It is said that he was the director of that Camorra massacre that is remembered as the First Feud of Scampia. Using capital letters, because when history becomes epic, the moment of antonomasia also arrives. Like his father. "Much tougher than his father," said some repentant.

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The young boss's ruthless strategy
The Feud, the Rebels and the Baptism of Fire
The young boss's ruthless strategy

The proud look of the boss who doesn't feel defeated even when he is taken out of the house he had chosen as a refuge for his time as a fugitive in handcuffs. His black eyes are fixed, as if motionless, towards the cameras and the photographers' lenses. Jeans, leather jacket and black sweater. This is how everyone remembers his image. The change of direction given by the management of Cosimo Di Lauro when he took over from his father Paolo was evident.

Previously, all the subgroups had a broad level of management autonomy, but they had two obligations towards the Di Lauro family: they had to buy drugs from them and then pay 50 thousand euros a week for each of the 20 drug dealing areas.

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The young Di Lauro changed the game: he demanded that all the underbosses become paid employees of the clan. And faced with the protests of some, he began to replace the forty or fifty year old area bosses with new bosses, twenty or thirty at most: a generational change perhaps never seen before in the criminal history of Naples. The sons replaced the fathers and the fathers rebelled.

The Feud, the Rebels and the Baptism of Fire
Cosimino's strategy, as told by the latest collaborators of justice, was also explained by the first great accuser of the Secondigliano mala, Pietro Esposito, who spoke of a "rejuvenation of the clan, whose members" should have been at most thirty years old. In a wiretap, it was written that Cosimo wanted to launch a counteroffensive to the point of starting a war. Sending for the rebels one by one. Also hitting them with bombs.

The two intercepted met again a few days later and talked about the young boss whom they called "an excellent leader". Then, during the conversation, reference was made to the organization of fire groups composed of five or six people who hid in houses and waited for the signal to strike the enemies. The goal was to strike first.

The last repentant of the Di Lauro clan, Salvatore Tamburrino, also spoke about Cosimo . For years he was part of the family and 'guardian' of Marco Di Lauro 's fugitive status until March 2, 2019 when, after killing his wife with gunshots, to ease his position, he revealed the boss's hideout, who was tracked down within an hour. He commanded the clan in the 2004 feud - explains Tamburrino who adds - Materially, as a boy, Cosimo would have only committed the attempted murder of Giuseppe Lomasto, an affiliate of the Licciardi, who did not die.

That would have been the first ambush, the baptism of fire for the black prince of Cupa dell'Arco. Numerous collaborators of justice, instead, spoke of ambushes and crimes ordered by Cosimo, filling dozens of pages of reports. This was how the black prince of Secondigliano fought his war against the federation of rebels.

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