On Thursday Stefano Bocchetti, 44, member of the Lo Russo clan, was shot dead in the neighborhood of Miano (Naples) in a reputed Camorra ambush. An arsenal consisting of machine guns, rifles, ammunition, bulletproof vests was found a few meters from the game room where Bocchetti was killed. The carabinieri of the Stella company have found the weapons in a room in Via Parise: 2 automatic submachine guns (an M4 Colt and a Beretta CX4 with precision sight), a pump action rifle, 400 ammunition of various caliber, two bulletproof vests, two helmets, magazines and weapon components. A real arsenal of war weapons perfectly lubricated and ready to fire. Various materials for the packaging and cutting of drugs are also in the room. All weapons will be checked to see if they have been used for blood events.

A boy of a few years held by the hand and dangled on the outside of the balcony, in tears, in front of his parents dumbfounded by terror.

It is one of the accusations made against Nicola Rullo , the alleged boss of the Contini clan and to five other men of his clan, in the context of the last line of investigation on the Camorra believed to be the owner of a piece of the city. Violence and threats - about the little boy dangling outside the railing - that are consumed in an attempt to get back some checks received by the pair of parents, in turn held responsible for having taken part in the big bank mortgage scam.

What story is this? It is the latest investigation into the Contini clan , which culminated these days in the notification of 59 warranty notices, against Nicola Rullo, some of his alleged business partners and an army of figureheads. This is the investigation into the great fraud of bank loans, which allows us to find the point of contact between representatives of the bourgeoisie of the city and subjects linked to the bloody Camorra, that of the feuds for the racket and for the dealing squares. In summary, in addition to Nicola Rullo, the bank manager Vincenzo Montone ends up accused , a few years ago at work in a branch of Unicredit (which must be considered an offended part of the scam); Salvatore Giglio, owner of "Il Giglio immobiliare". They are held responsible for having created a system aimed at obtaining loans of hundreds of thousands of euros, with the aggravating circumstance of having favored the Contini clan.

The police of the Nucleo Investigativo of Naples arrested the 32-year-old Neapolitan Giuseppe Arduino, a fugitive and a leading exponent of the Contini clan.

As part of a coordinated activity of the Naples Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office, Arduino was tracked down by the military inside a villa in Capaccio-Paestum, in the province of Salerno.

The 32-year-old was wanted since June 26, 2019, when an order issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Naples against 126 subjects held responsible, in various capacities, for criminal association of mafia type was executed.

Napels police arrested 24 members of an organization of drug traffickers operating between Campania and Lazio.

Among the main exponents of the association is Ciro Capasso , whose operations in the sector of drug trafficking had already emerged in other judicial investigations which also attested to his proximity to Camorra environments related to the clan of the splinters of Secondigliano, as well as to the economic wing of the Contini clan and in any case in contact with other Neapolitan associations in favor of which he has operated over time as a real "broker" of drug trafficking.

'Clean sweep' operation against the Orlando clan on Wednesday, active mainly in the Neapolitan municipalities of Marano and Quarto. 24 arrests for mafia association, drug trafficking and extortion. The Camorra association has gained hegemony over the territory by exploiting ties, including family ties, with the old Nuvoletta and Polverino families. The operation has effectively dismantled the organization that managed in particular the distribution and sale of the drug, both to wholesalers and to the pushers of the main squares in the area, extending its links even to the territories of the lower Lazio and Sardinia, regions that fed drugs through local referents.

Anti-Camorra operation in Naples, police arrested 32 members of the Lo Russo clan based in the neighborhoods of Miano, Piscinola and Marianella on charges of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortion, loansharking and illegal possession of weapons. Among the arrested several young members who replaced the imprisoned bosses.

Is Pasquale Claudio Locatelli considered an 'Ndrangheta member? Or Camorrista?

I remember reading in ZeroZeroZero about him, it mentioned that he didn't belong to a clan and was more of a broker & intermediary.

However, various articles mentioned that he's a Camorrista...? Was he of Neapolitan descent? Or a Camorra member? An 'Ndrangheta member? Or?

http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357707&CategoryId=12395

https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-...alian-drug-lord-on-the-run-for-21-years/

(Also posting this in the 'Ndrangheta thread)

The Lancashire hideaway of an Italian mafia boss:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/XO...aravan_park#group-The-message-fBJghaHN2d

In Holland we have dozens like him, all drug traffickers.

All I know is that “Locatelli” is a strictly Northern Italian last name (Lombardy).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...mourn-homes-as-razing-of-gomorrah-begins

Scampia residents mourn homes as razing of ‘Gomorrah’ begins

Camorra, the son of the boss Augusto La Torre sentenced to 10 years
CASERTA
Friday 21 February 2020

The court of Naples sentenced Francesco Tiberio La Torre to 10 years and 4 months in prison , son of the head of the homonymous clan active in Mondragone Augusto La Torre , detained for over 20 years. La Torre Jr was sentenced at the end of the abbreviated rite by the judge for the preliminary hearing, which also imposed penalties of up to 20 years for eleven other defendants. The boss' scion is accused of having been part with the accomplices of a criminal organization dedicated to trafficking and drug dealing , in particular hashish, cocaine and marijuana. The drug was purchased in the Neapolitan area and sold at retail in Mondragone.

On November 12, 2015, the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the Naples Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office, conducted around thirty searches in 11 Italian regions. 29 people (including 10 Venetians) are indicted in this case to which we added a large chapter, in this case trafficking in aircraft and helicopter components, machine guns, rocket launchers, Beretta, grenades.
The traffic mainly concerns Somalia, but also Armenia, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Iran, South Sudan (The Ambassador of this country in Italy seems to be involved in the 'case) and Angola.
Relatives of the Camorrist clan of Casalesi and the "Mala del Brenta" are arrested, including the entrepreneur Pasquale Chianese, suspected of having employed as a military instructor.
Other people are involved like Andrea Pardi (Managing Director of the “Societa Italiana Elicotteri”) based in Rome, Riccardo Migliori (former deputy, current President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly) plus Bruno Scapini and Giancarlo Carpi.
Omar Jama living in London rejects the charges of the investigators and does not seem to have been arrested.
However, the noose tightens around him because we learned that he was apparently known to Stefano Perotti, an entrepreneur arrested for corruption as part of the Great Works investigation in Florence (where Jama lived several years for his studies of law). In 2007, his consulting firm paid Jama 16,000 euros for a consultancy contract to promote potential jobs in Somalia. Aldo Pavan, 74, who lives on a meager pension in Treviso, was not arrested either and said he was outraged to have "been accused of such misdeeds of which he knows nothing".

Giancarlo Carpi was much more verbose after his arrest. He even testified in a report in Rai 3 magazine "Report" that the death of Elena Maniero, the daughter of Felice, a former Mala del Brenta boss who became repentant, was criminal. Elena was found dead at home on February 23, 2006, and police at the time concluded that she had committed suicide. Words that Felice Maniero does not believe even if at the time he also believed in this thesis "they killed her" had thus been his first words. But the years passing Felice sided with the theory of suicide.

The ex-boss Ciro Mariano speaks: «In Naples the Camorra no longer exists»
Saverio Di Donato -February 29, 2020

The former head of the Quartieri Spagnoli Ciro Mariano 'o picuozz told himself during
an interview released in the morning for Gigi Di Fiore: «He only spread tarantella with no sense Naples, the Camorra no longer exists. There is no more, as I say, the underworld. There are gangs of kids who do nonsense and sometimes become dangerous because of this, because they can make victims even among people outside the system. They do the stretches, which are only tarantella to make brothel, to appear, without any sense ».

Mariano will turn 69 next November, he is a free man, after a total of 30 years spent in prison, including 13 under the 41-bis regime between Asinara, Cuneo, Parma, Pianosa and Sulmona. "Do you agree with the choice of your brother Marco, who has become a collaborator of justice?", Di Fiore also asks the ex-Camorra. «No, I have severed all relationships with him,
as did my brother Salvatore who is serving life in prison. When he returned to the Districts, Marco did nothing but nonsense, he ruined my friends who had never had criminal problems before. Because of him, they ended up in jail, now they are free again. "

The Orlando-Polverino clan appears to have the most cash. Or they are at the very least close to the wealthiest.

For the shooting of Domenico De Cesare last July, Angelo Genovese and Michele Squillante were sentenced to 5 years. The offense ascribed to them has been declassified by attempted murder and robbery to injury and robbery. A year is the sentence that has been imposed on Genovese's mother and wife, Immacolata Barra and Sara Mencherini accused of aiding and abetting.

Alfonso Scoppetta (33) was shot and injured in a camorra ambush in Torre Annunziata. The episode took place last night, at 1.15 am, in via Tagliamonte. From a first reconstruction the man, already known to the police, would have been approached by two scooters with four people on board who fired gunshots one hitting him in his knee.

Scampia, Don Vittorio Siciliani died: a life for the least and against the Camorra
By Rosario Caracciolo Posted on April 5, 2020
Don Vittorio Siciliani, beloved parish priest of the Resurrection in the Monterosa district, died. He was 84 years old, died on Palm Sunday and his disappearance leaves a huge void in the neighborhood, in the city and in the Church that has served for 60 years. He was a point of reference for the community, he spent a life for the least and against the Camorra.

Don Vittorio was the first to denounce the drama of the Sails in the Church, transformed the parish into a center of social activities for the neighborhood and of assistance to disadvantaged families, fought the Camorra and all forms of delinquency. He was very concrete, shy and did not like being in the spotlight

The parish community communicated his death on social media: "Today, April 5, 2020, Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, our dear Father Vittorio Siciliani has returned to God. He fought in his illness, with the strength of his character and his deep faith ".

Hundreds of messages of condolence and affection left on Facebook. “He was also busy on the anticamorra front in the darkest days of Scampia - recalls Daniele Sanzone of the 'A67 - He remembered everyone, but everyone. The last time I saw him and, I had not entered the church since the time of communion, he said to me “By now you can only see yourself on TV. Come and visit me every now and then. " Dear Don Vittorio rest in peace ” source Repubblica

The Venosa family is well known. A relative Giovanni Venosa took on the role of a boss in the movie Gomorrah. He also turned out to lead a branch of the Casalesi clan in real life.

43 year old Gaetano Mercurio a member of the clan Troncone was shot dead in Napels.

https://luigicuomo.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/prima-pagina-arresti-clan-troncone.jpg?w=848

I thought it was strange they would do that now is almost impossible, but the shooting already happened on March 6 but he died today after 36 days in intensive care at the San Paolo hospital in Naples.

https://www.stylo24.it/la-guerra-sfiorata-tra-i-mallardo-e-i-casalesi-per-il-calcestruzzo/

Trouble between the Mallardos and the Casalesi.

Wow, the Licciardi- Mallardo clan got the Casalesi to back down? From concrete?

I think the Licciardi clan is the strongest in Naples...

At the end of March Francesco Iovine, nephew of 'o Ninno boss of the Casalesi, died: he was in Ibiza. A sudden death occurred in the hospital. He was in Ibiza where he lived with his sister. Francesco Iovine , 30 years old son of Carmine and nephew of Antonio aka ' o Ninno - ex boss now collaborator of justice - died suddenly. He may have died from covid-19 . Unlike his brother Oreste, Francesco had not joined the protection program guaranteed to relatives of repentants.

Rather than a Casalesi faction, the Zagaria family has been compared by several turncoats to a 'Ndrina. They are based on genuine kinship and almost impenetrable.

The powerful Pasquale Zagaria, 60, brother of the boss of the Casalesi clan Michele, was released from the prison of Sassari where he was in 41-bis regime and placed under house arrest.

His nickname is Bin Laden, many people are upset in particular the far-right.

Isn't it odd that they're releasing them now when the virus seems to be slowing down over there? Why now and not before?

IDK, probably because once the virus is inside in the prison system it spreads easier. Outside it's looking better for Italy that's true, hopefully there won't be a second wave.