Ambush in the Spanish Quarters of Napels. A 58-year-old man, Vincenzo Errichiello was shot in front of the entrance of the Vecchio Pellegrini hospital and is in serious condition. The man, who boasts several precedents and is known in circles with the nickname 'Ignezzillo', was on probation and in the past he was close to the Mariano clan.
The real target was the notorious boss Ciro Mariano, recently released from prison. Mariano would have miraculously escaped the ambush.
Life imprisonment for Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria. This is the sentence imposed by the judge Provitera of the Court of Assizes of Naples for the two murders of Antonio Bamundo, which took place in 2000 in San Marcellino, and Michele Iovine, which took place in Casagiove in 2008, of which Capastorta was the instigator.
Camorra Naples: checkmate "Moccia" clan, seven arrests. Among the accusations extortion and recycling and re-utilization of assets. The manager of a garage that is transformed into an operational base, framed as a promoter, organizer and director of illegal activities and together with his brother also dealt with the clan's accounting, including financial support to members, both free and detained as well as payment of defenders . Other detainees participated in the various criminal activities and, in particular, in the extortion of business owners and businesses in the area.
There were a lot of people in the street tonight in Mugnano (Naples) where Giovanni Pianese, a 63-year-old street vendor of fish products, was killed. The murder took place not far from the victim's home: a man approached Pianese at the intersection of via Mercato and via Aldo Moro and shot him. The man died instantly, terror in the crowd. The city is shocked for what happened because an episode like this on the territory of Mugnano has not been happening for a long time.If it was a Camorra murder - at least according to the way it was performed - it would be particularly worrying.
On Sunday Vincenzo Mariniello, believed to be the head of the homonymous clan, was shot dead in Acerra. The 46-year-old boss was killed near his home in Via Nenni in Acerra while he was on board his Mercedes. The man is the son of the boss Gennaro Mariniello, who was murdered in March 2000.
Operation against the Casalesi clan in the northeastern region of Veneto. Police arrested 50 people on charges of various crimes, the clan had infiltrated heavily the politics and economy of the region. It is the biggest probe against organized crime in Venice.
Two "Sequino" clan members have been captured by the Carabinieri in London. The carabinieri located and arrested Sebastiano Capobianco, 26, and Gennaro Esposito, 36, both of Rione Sanità and believed to be affiliated to the "Sequino" Camorra clan. They were executed in the order for custody in prison for mafia-type association, association aimed at trafficking and drug dealing with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia. The two arrested are in an English penitentiary pending extradition.
Murder in Basiglio (Milan): mafia-style ambush, dead man after shooting
Giuseppe Giuliano was 64 years old, he was of Neapolitan origins but had long lived in the north, in Binasco. He was married, father of two daughters and already known to law enforcement for some criminal records for criminal association and stolen cigarettes. Old stories, from the 90s.
Also on Monday afternoon, a few kilometers away from the spot where Giuliano was killed, another man, a 63-year-old Italian, Antonio Crisanti, was killed. The killer shot him behind the Il Gigante supermarket in Rozzano. It is still unclear whether the two episodes can be connected to each other.
A 36-year-old man, Pasquale Dello Iacolo, considered close to the Longobardi-Beneduce clan, was shot and injured near the parking lot of a disco in Via Campana by two men on a motorcycle.Injured also a young man who was going to the disco.
Iacolo was arrested in November 2016 during the operation "Iron Men", which brought to prison 46 members of the three groups that for years have acted under the sign of the "Longobardi-Beneduce" of Pozzuoli, and sentenced in first instance to 10 years in prison.
Giovanni Nuvoletta, son of the late godfather Lorenzo, who died in Marano in 1994, was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment. Nuvoletta had been arrested four years ago as part of an investigation by the Milanese Dda, later transmitted to that of Naples. The 50-year-old, who moved to Lombardy with his family, had started several businesses in the agricultural and dairy sector. He was accused of criminal association of mafia type, international drug trafficking, re-use of illicit capital and fraudulent transfer of values. Giovanni Nuvoletta's sons, Ciro, Lorenzo and Angelo, investigated at the time of the facts, were acquitted.
Camorra, arms from Austria to supply the Neapolitan clans: 15 arrests. The two suppliers met the clan's emissaries across the border to establish the cargo to be sent to Naples. Eduard Lassnig senior and Eduard Lassnig junior, residing in Völkermarkt (Austria), admitted their responsibilities in the international arms trade, including Kalashnikovs and Skorpion machine guns, to Domenico Boccia, a native of Terzigno.