ROME - The Supreme Court confirms life sentences to all sixteen against the Casalesi clan. It was concluded that this evening, the process of "Spartacus" at the bar he saw one of the most bloodthirsty gangs of the Camorra. After nearly five hours of deliberation, a panel of the Supreme Court, chaired by Edward Fazzioli, delivered its verdict in rejecting all the appeals filed by the 24 defendants charged and convicted for various crimes including Mafia association, murder, illegal port d ' weapons, and extortion. Among the most famous defendants are: Francesco Schiavone (Sandokan), Francesco Bidognetti, Michele Zagaria and Antonio Iovine. The latter two are fugitives. Confirmed in toto the ruling of the Court of Appeal of Naples.
convictions. In addition to sixteen life sentences, the Supreme Court, in particular, has rejected the appeals and declared ineligible also eight other defendants who have been confirmed the sentences of 3 to 20 years. In particular, they become final sentences for Basque Antonio (21 years), Luigi Diana (16 years and now regret), Pezzella Nicola (15 years). A decade and a half go to the Employee of Justice Carmine Schiavone. Guido Mercury was sentenced to 9 years, Corrado De Luca - currently at large - to 8 years. Alberto Di Tella for four years, three years and three months to Vincenzo Della Corte.
process. E 'since 1986, the year of Bardellino ruling that there was no conviction as final and overall crime most powerful organization of Caserta. The process 'Spartacus' is the result of a survey conducted for five years, from '93 to '98, from the direction anti-mafia in Naples. The investigations were fueled by statements of many collaborators with justice and have highlighted, including the reconstruction of 18 murders, the statement of the Casalesi clan and the growth of its economic power. The survey gave rise to several sections of the proceedings. The first instance of the process 'Spartacus' began in the summer of '98, winding then for seven years with 630 hearings and listening to more than 600 witnesses. The ruling was issued by the panel headed by Judge Raffaele Magi, September 15, 2005. Began after a few meso the Court of Appeal, which ended in 2008 with the ruling today that the Supreme Court confirmed in its entirety.
Prisoners. The ruling "clears" the head of Casale Francesco Schiavone, known as Sandokan, the undisputed leader, his (now former) right arm Francesco Bidognetti, nicknamed Lard is midnight, and the two fugitives boss who would acquire in recent years the role of Regents of the organization, or what Antonio Iovine and Michele Zagaria who built the villa along the lines of that of Scarface starring Al Pacino. The process
Spartacus by the name of the slave who led a revolt against the Roman Empire and that the intention was to symbolize the anti-Mafia investigators from rebellion to the overwhelming power of the clan, tells a particularly long series of murders in the late eighties and early nineties . Crimes, often carried out with the technique of white shotgun, made in order to gain power within the clan, underline the dominance in the management of illegal business and to reduce to reason those allies who aspired to increase their role and they conflict with the historical leaders. The investigation that concluded the trial, in the light of the revelations of several repentant including Carmine Schiavone, allowed to reveal the secrets of the powerful clan: it starts from the moment that is the elimination of the charismatic leader, Antonio Bardellino, killed in an ambush in Brazil (the corpse was never found) and continue with the ascent to the top of 'organization of the group headed by Francesco Schiavone, known as Sandokan and the subsequent conflict with the faction that tried to prevent the dominance of the Camorra of Casal di Principe, like Falco and De La Torre.
Clashes generated by the objective of exercising control of illegal businesses run by what was described as "businesswoman Camorra, which converts words into seemingly legitimate activities (such as construction and trade of concrete) the proceeds of extortion and other crimes. The Casalesi
cashing a heavy defeat today, but the game for the affirmation of legality in Caserta is not closed. Recently, in fact, the clan, decimated by arrests and the decision to collaborate with the justice of other bosses and minions, is seeking a new balance but not quite resigned to lay down their arms.
For decades the activities of this clan, the structure and the mentality that Camorra mafia (who preferred to act in the wall giving up as much as possible egregious actions, instead of the typical side stragista Joseph Brisson, who also ended up in handcuffs) have been run away from the "spotlight." Media attention and public opinion on Casalesi has suddenly turned on only after the global success of the book "Gomorra" Roberto Saviano, where the criminal enterprises of the clan are at the heart of the narrative.
Source: The repubblica.it
