Scampia Feuds

[furiofromnaples]

http://www.carabinieri.it/docs/default- ... f?sfvrsn=0

Paolo Di Lauro, heavily sorrowful of the loss of his son Domenico because of a car accident, had abdicated in favor of his son Cosimo, who was supposed to suppress the autonomous instances of some affiliates, including Raffaele Amato and Cesare Pagano.

The different arrangement desired by Cosimo Di Lauro has led to a reduction in the autonomy of the capi zona,that was all historical members of the association and much older than the Di Lauro's heir,creating a split within the clan, from which have strayed some affiliates (so-called scissionists) that gave rise to a violent contrast with the Di Lauro family.

First Scampia War (2004-2005)

October 28, the "scissionists" kill Fulvio Montanino and Claudio Salerno,a dilauro men;
November 2, are severely injured at the border between Arzano and Secondigliano,three marshals of the carabinieri in civilian clothes because mistaken for members of a rival faction;
November 6 Antonio Landieri a twenty-five-year-old boy with disabilities, is killed by mistake at Scampia's "Seven Palaces". Along with him are injured 5 of his friends, probably swapped for a rival group;
November 9, three corpses are found inside a car at Scampia, Stefano Mauriello and his cousins Mario and Stefano Maisto, who would be linked to a well-known Melito cfamily ;
November 20 is killed Biagio Migliaccio, cousin of a secessionists man. After a few hours the vengeance:is killed a grocer Gennaro Emolo, father of a Di Lauro man;
November 21, three murders, Domenico Riccio, Salvatore Gagliardi and Francesco Tortora;
November 22,Gelsomina Verde,a girl with no camorra ties was tortured, killed and then burned because had the only fault of not knowing where was the former boyfriend that was affiliated with the scissionists;
December 5, is killed in Bacoli Enrico Mazzarella, owner of a restaurant because because was a relative of one of former boss switched with the scissionists;
December 6 is killed at Casavatore Dario Scherillo a man with no criminal ties for a personal mistake;
December 11, Massimo Marino, innocent cousin of Gennaro "McKay" Marino, is killed in response to the murder of a Di Lauro sentinel;
December 24, Christmas Eve, is killed at Casavatore Giuseppe Pezzella, nephew of a deal near to the scissionists;
December 30, the relative of a Ferone clan camorrista of Casavatore, allied with Di Lauro, is killed;

2005

January 2 takes place another three murders,two of which are linked to the feud of Scampia: Crescenzo Marino, father of Gennaro "McKay" Marino, Salvatore Barra, near the to the Ferone clan, allied to the Di Lauros;
January 15, Carmela Attrice, mother of a scissionist, who has been invited several times to leave her home, is killed;
January 21 was arrested Cosimo Di Lauro, the son of the boss. The operation is difficult and long because at the time of the capture many women go down the street and throw objects against the police. That same evening, fireworks glitter at Secondigliano as a celebration by the scissionists for the capture of the enemy.In the evening, also, the body of Giulio Ruggiero,close to Di Lauro, was found burned decapitated;
January 24, another innocent victim:Attilio Romanò was killed because mistaken for the owner of the shop where he worked, that was related to the boss Rosario Pariante of the scissionists;
January 29, Vincenzo De Gennaro was killed and his 13-year-old nephew was severely injured;
January 31, Vittorio Bevilacqua, the father of a scissionist, was killed in front of his wife;
February 1, they are killed in Casavatore, lurking in a triple ambush,Giovanni Orabona, Giuseppe Pizzone and Antonio Patrizio.The 3 men was close to the Ferone clan allied to the DiLauros;
February 19 another blitz against the secessionists: arrested six affiliates;
February 27, Raffaele Amato, head of the "Spaniards", arrested in Barcelona;
September 16,in an apartment, not far from Cupa dell'Arco street, the "kingdom" of the clan Di Lauro was captured the boss Paolo Di Lauro.
Fifteen days later, in a courtroom, Paolo Di Lauro kissed Vincenzo Pariante, the boss of the "scissionists"; The investigators interpreted that gesture as a signal outside that the war was over. Despite the decrease in the number of crimes, backlash of the feud occurred until 2007, including the murder in Secondigliano of Lucio De Lucia, father of Ugo, charged with the murder of Gelsomina Verde.

The December 30, 2013 is arrested Angelo Marino (1972) accused of the double murder of Fulvio Montanino and Claudio Salerno, who started the feud.

The key points of the agreement between the Secessionists and Di Lauros
Were the following:
1. "The territory must be divided fairly. The province to the Secessionists, Naples at the Di Lauros ".
2. "The secessionists will use their channels for importing drugs without necessarily resorting to mediation of the DiLauros ".
3. "Private vendets are separate from business affairs, which are more important than personal issues. If there will be a vendetta linked to the feud that will not reignite hostilities but will remain on the private level. "

[Lupara]

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[Dwalin2014]

Cosimo Di Lauro seems the most violent of them all, he killed far more than any other camorra boss would have considered "necessary" imo. Maybe less than Cutolo and the anti-Cutolo coalition, yet he is clearly a megalomaniac who orders a hit first and thinks later. Yet, he has currently no life sentences, since the one for the Gelsomina Verde murder was overturned, while for the Attilio Romano' murder they convicted Marco Di Lauro in absentia (since he is nowhere to be found, it's easy to blame everything on him, so the others can get off free, it's a common strategy), while Cosimo got acquitted. Then there was the Massimo Marino murder, I can't find recent news if he still has the life sentence or got off on appeal again. The only conviction that stands strong is 15 years for camorra association. But if he will finish that without getting life sentences first and gets actually back on the streets, it will be serious trouble for everyone, even for random people. It's worse than releasing "Gaspipe" Casso or the late Nicky Scarfo on the streets in America.

[furiofromnaples]

Cosimo DiLauro get 15 y in 2008 and the life for Gelsomina Verde murder. In this days the di lauro clan boss should be Marco DiLauro b.1980.

[Dwalin2014]

Cosimo DiLauro get 15 y in 2008 and the life for Gelsomina Verde murder. In this days the di lauro clan boss should be Marco DiLauro b.1980.

The Gelsomina Verde murder conviction has been overturned on appeal later. If they don't convict him for another murder, he can get back outside after the 15 years end, so unless they hurry up with the trials, there will other bodies dropping. At least, from the descriptions, he seems an unnecessarily violent type of character, and the "soldiers" he employed during the war sometimes weren't even able to recognize the targets or take good aim, so people who had nothing to do with the camorra were hit, like Attilio Romano', Dario Scherillo etc.

Paolo Di Lauro was like that too, when he was younger in the 90s: ordered the mother of the camorrista Antonio Ruocco killed to make him suffer more, then once took a rival as hostage and slowly tortured him to death (a camorrista called Alfredo Negri, I think).

[furiofromnaples]

Second Feud (2007)

March 14 Secondigliano: double murder of Giuseppe Pica and Franco Cardillo, both affiliated to the DiLauro clan;
March 21 Secondigliano: murder of Lucio DE LUCIA, affiliated to the DiLauros;
May 3, Secondigliano: killing of Patrizio De Vitale, bodyguard of Paolo DI LAURO; In the circumstance was injured Michele D'Avanzo, brother-in-law of Paolo DI LAURO. De Vitale gave to DiLauro the apartment where the fugitive had been arrested by the Carabinieri on September 15, 2005, The murder was to be decided by the group "AMATO-PAGANO"to conques the drug dealing squares still managed by the "DI LAURO clan",aka the District of the Flowers and the House of the Smurfs.
June 1, Secondigliano Flower District:murder of Antonio Silvestro, flanker of the dlauros;he was linked to two major capipiazza - Giuseppe Pica e Franco Cardillo- both affiliated to the clan "DI LAURO" and assassinated on March 14, 2007;
June 11, in a parking place of the highway 372 Telese-Caianello , in the locality of Castelvenere was discovered the bodies of Angelo Esposito and Vincenzo Vitale , both members of DiLauro clan were shot in the head.
June 13, Secondigliano: murder of Luigi Giannino while he was in the company of Ciro Vallinotti, who was seriously injured in the incident. Both of them already belonging to the DiLauros had recently switched to the Scissionists after the murders of Pica and Cardillo;
June 17, Melito di Napoli: murder of Marco Maisto and Giovanni Irollo , both of whom were believed to be affiliated to the Scissionists. Maisto, already affiliated to the DiLauros, was then passed to the opposed clan ; his brother had been arrested on charges of being a member of the commando who, on the evening of the June 3 2006, had killed the brothers Ciro and Domenico Ghirardi;

The analysis of the criminal history of these successive bloodbaths demonstrated a unifying circumstance, which consisted of the fact that the people killeds were originally affiliated with the clan of Lauro, from whom they had decided to leave for to to the opposing Amato-Pagano; So it was inferred that such killings were to result in retaliation of the former against the latter. The constant evolution of criminal events made the situation extremely complicated and fluid.

This was the scenario:the DI Lauros, who was forced to made an alliance with the Missos to find alternative supply routes for drugs (in the past,they collaborated with the Scissionists); On the other, some disagreements between the Amato-Pagano and the Prestieris had pushed them away from the neighborhood; Therefore, after a few months, the first decided to made an alliance with the Licciardis, headed by the fugitive Vincenzo.

September 25 was killed in Arzano Luigi Magnetti, whose family was close to the DiLauros;
September 27 in Calvizzano was killed Giovanni Moccia, considered a trusted man of the Abbinante family of Marano, also linked to DiLauros.

This last two murders of 2007 seemed to have further decimated the Di Lauro clan, the development of the investigations pointed out that a further group Paolo DiLauro (si sono girati) passing to the Scissionists. This group was related to the Magnetti family, headed by Antonio Magnetti, already responsible - along with his brother-in-law Salvatore Petriccione, known as the "sailor" - of a group of drug dealers operating in Via Dante and in the so-called "Vanella Grassi" area.
Regarding the key player in the second feud must surely consider the Magnetti and Petriccione families that dissolving the alliance with the Di Lauros and sealing a new criminal pact with the Scissionists, were crucial to the conclusion of this second conflict in Scampia.

Until his arrest Antonio Magnetti was the leader of the homonymous clan and was among the main promoter of the alliance with the Scissionists; In fact, he was able to persuade to the betrayl his relatives and members of the Petriccione clan and even after the arrest, the newborn group remained united against the DiLauros.
Give a look to Salvatore Petriccione, who in 2007 was the promoter of the new secession in damage of Di Lauro clan; A slow, subtle but devastating secession that led to the slaughter of the last loyals to the clan. Salvatore Petriccione, however, knew very well that the price to pay to join AMATO-PAGANO families,winners of the first feud,would have been very high.Totore the sailor, in fact to join the Scissionists had vowed to massacre all the affiliates to the DiLauros; This was the only way to be able to join the clan, still maintaining full autonomy in the "Vanella Grassi" area.

That was how Salvatore Petriccione came to the head of young killers willing to do everything in order to get power and money -
In the killers group there are Luigi Magnetti, Luigi Giannino, Luca Raiano and Rosario Guarino.

[Dwalin2014]

By the way, I remember reading last year or 2 years ago about this Mugnano feud in the 90s (Di Lauro clan vs Ruocco clan) when Paolo Di Lauro beheaded Antonio Ruocco's favorite horse and sent him the head, like in "The Godfather"....Really, real-life mobsters take after the movies, not the other way around.

[furiofromnaples]

Third Feud (2012)

In all the three feuds there a secession; in the first feud the Scissionists rebel to the Di Lauros to ensure their rule in the northern area of Naples; in the second feud another group of Di Lauro loyalists (si sono girati) switching the ranks of the secessionists.
In the third feud , in first time the Amato-Pagano had face the rebellion of all the other camorra families responsible for the previous feuds; In the second time,the dominant association of the "ABBINANTE-ABETE-NOTTURNO-APREA" clans faced the separation of the Vanella Grassi group.

June 21 in Naples, the double murder of Franco Gaiola , affiliated to"GUARINO / CELESTE" and Ciro Abrunzo, c.linked to the "APREA" group
(Ciro Abrunzo was married to Maria Rosaria Aprea, related to Raffaele Aprea, element of the homonymous camorristic family linked by kinship constraints, with the NOTTURNO and ABETE families;
July 10, Scampia murder of Alfredo Leonardi granddaughter Antonio Leonardi;
July 13, Scampia 's murder Vincenzo Ciletti, linked to the “ABBINANTE/ABETE/NOTTURNO”;
August 23 in Terracina was killed on the beach Gaetano Marino;
August 28,Scampia,murder of Gennaro Ricci,considered prominent element of the Vanella-Grassi group
September 9 Naples the murder of Raffaele Abete,brother of Arcangelo Abete, the lbossof the homonymous camorristic group,that was in prison;
September 17 Naples murder of Roberto Ursillo;
October 8 : in Naples tmurder of Mario Perrotta, contiguous to the group "VANELLA GRASSI";
October 9 in Naples murder of Salvatore Barbato, prominent element of the Vanella-Grassi group ". In the meantime another affiliate of the Vanella Grassi, RUSSO Luigi Russo was seriously injured and died on December 9;
October 15 in Naples, Pasquale Romano was killed mistake of person;
October 23,Naples murder of Gennaro Spina ,considered contiguous to the "VANELLA GRASSI";
November 9, Naples Secondigliano the murder of ESPOSITO Ciro, c.1964, considered contiguous to the group of "VANELLA GRASSI";
December 5, Naples murder of Luigi Lucenti considered contiguous to the Abbinante clan;
December 20, Naples Miano the murder of Biagio Scagliola gravitating to the orbit of Abbinante clan.

[Dwalin2014]

Furio, I think it's better to include the Nunzio Cangiano murder too (10 August 2007): retaliation for the murder of Antonio Silvestro (1 June 2007). Ordered by Marco Di Lauro, committed by Mario Buono and Carlo Capasso, I remember reading there was a boy as the only witness against Buono, who confirmed the identification, then took it back, but anyway Buono got a life sentence for this and for the Attilio Romano' murder too I think. There are articles in Italian about this, don't know which one is better, here is one:

http://www.internapoli.it/25151/il-racc ... o-cangiano

And also, the murder of Edoardo La Monica, in September 2005, he was tortured to death in a very brutal way, and it was suspected it was revenge for him informing on Paolo Di Lauro which caused him to be arrested:

http://www.internapoli.it/articolo.asp?id=5074

He is supposed to have turned him to the police as a "cold served" revenge for the murder of his uncle Aniello La Monica (the boss of Secondigliano before Paolo Di Lauro, killed in May 1982 by Paolo Di Lauro leading the hit squad personally; it's alleged this was a reaction to the attempt by La Monica to have Di Lauro killed, and Di Lauro got the authorization of the Nuvoletta family from Marano to kill La Monica; this is alleged to be the only murder where Paolo Di Lauro pulled the trigger personally):

http://imperodellacamorra.blogspot.it/

[JeremyTheJew]

this thread got me looking into the TV show Gomorra on Netflix. so far im on episode 4 of the 1st season, great show. way better then the movie, which I thought was very slow and was not very informative....

how big is the average camorra clan?
it seems like the camorra is not structured as LCN is... for example, theres a boss and then soldiers.... no capos (in fact capo straight translates to boss in the camorra)

[Dwalin2014]

this thread got me looking into the TV show Gomorra on Netflix. so far im on episode 4 of the 1st season, great show. way better then the movie, which I thought was very slow and was not very informative....

how big is the average camorra clan?
it seems like the camorra is not structured as LCN is... for example, theres a boss and then soldiers.... no capos (in fact capo straight translates to boss in the camorra)

I am not sure about the average size, but the bigger clans have equivalent to capos, 1 boss can't control it all. For example, Paolo Di Lauro had all those "capos" who later rebelled, after he allowed his son Cosimo to bring his younger friends in charge and put them in place of older capos. All those ones like Raffaele Amato, Cesare Pagano, Rosario Pariante, Raffaele Abbinante, Gennaro Marino, don't remember who else.
But the structure is still not as rigid as in Cosa Nostra clans I think, except the Nuvoletta clan from Marano, where some members were made into the Cosa Nostra apart from being camorristi: I am not sure whether Lorenzo or Angelo Nuvoletta was the official boss, but I read in 1 article that Pasquale Liccardo was the underboss, and in more articles that Gaetano Lubrano was the consigliere and Luigi Baccante was a capo (couldn't find information about who the other capos were, but I remember reading an interview with an informant, he said that having a consigliere was unusual for the camorra, it's a typical Cosa Nostra rank). I can check the older articles, but unfortunately there isn't much and the information is sometimes confusing, also because the Nuvoletta clan never had any informants inside, the information comes from informants from the Gionta clan that is their ally, like Ferdinando Cataldo and some others. However, Cataldo was already shown as unreliable after being caught lying in the trial for the journalist Giancarlo Siani 1985 murder.

[furiofromnaples]

In the mafia the capo or capitain had a crew of 10 made men and some associates under him,in the camorra case they are called capi zona or boss of the zones that can be a zona di spaccio aka a quarter or a street where the drug are sold to the junkies. Using the Gomorra example: the dwarf and the prince are capizona that had much men under him.The Di Lauro lost the war because was only focused on the drugs: I don't know if as Saviano said at his peak the dilauros earn 500,000 euros a day from scampia that was the biggest drug market in europe but more capizona becomed very rich and don't wanted to lost the money and the respect only because cosimo di lauro said so.That's it only the money.