Three people, believed to be members of the Mele Camorra clan, active in the Pianura neighborhood of Naples, have been issued a precautionary detention order, issued by the Naples preliminary investigations judge (GIP) at the request of the local Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA). The arrest warrants were executed by officers of the Naples Flying Squad against Giuseppe Mele, Salvatore Mele, and Antonio Bellofiore, all already detained and held jointly responsible for the aggravated murder of Vincenzo Birra, committed in the Pianura neighborhood of Naples on the night of July 13-14, 2013. The suspects are charged with murder and illegal possession and carrying of a firearm, aggravated by mafia-related practices. The statements of collaborators of justice, particularly those of Raffale dello Iacolo, known as Toc Toc, confirmed by the investigations conducted by the Flying Squad and coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, have shed full light on the motive for the brutal crime, the instigators, and the perpetrators, who were the target of the restraining order. According to the prosecution's theory, the decision to kill Birra was made by the Mele brothers, the undisputed leaders of the Mele criminal organization at the time. They had decided to punish the victim, who was guilty of revealing to outsiders his participation in the murder of Fosco Di Fusco, committed in concert with other members of the Mele clan.
“A few days ago my son confided in me that he had participated, as a material executor, in the murder of Di Fusco Fosco, known as Foschetto, killed in Pianura on June 28, without adding any other details”. Giuseppina Delfino was a desperate mother. She was questioned by the police immediately after the murder of her son Vincenzo Birra, affiliated with the Mele clan of Pianura killed on July 17, 2013. The woman hoped to be able to provide useful information to immediately find her son's killers and explained to the investigators: “…I know that lately my son was hanging out with Catone Antonio, Arillo Vincenzo, the brothers Giuseppe and Salvatore Mele, Bellofiore Antonio Aversano Luigi and others whose names I don't remember; he often used to hang out at number 93 of Via Napoli, or the area of the so-called quadrilateral”. This particular chilling story is contained in the custody order signed by the investigating judge Tommaso Parrella who sent to prison 28 bosses and henchmen of the Pesce-Marfella clans and the Mele secessionists in Pianura. It is likely that Vincenzo Birra was lured into a trap by people he trusted. Vincenzo Birra probably understood something and wanted to give his mother a rye. But it was not enough. In the order there are some intercepted phone calls between him and Vincenzo Arillo. The two call each other “love” in a joking tone. And the murder of Vincenzo Birra becomes the subject of commentary among the members of the Mele clan themselves. On July 16, 2013, two days after the murder, investigators in prison recorded a conspiracy between the boss Giuseppe Marfella, known as “Peppone”, his son Mario and his nephew Domenico Russolillo, “from which – writes the investigating judge – it was clear that the murder in question had been the result of an internal purge within the Mele clan.
Cosi:
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Giuseppe: but this boy… but…
Mario: it's a …•inc ….
Giuseppe: what.!
Mario: It's a real mess... that he managed to create.
Giuseppe: (quietly) .. inc Peppe?
Mario: eh..
Giuseppe: yes but… (Giuseppe gestures to his son Mario to make him understand to be careful about what he says) Yes, fine, but are you in God's grace, you…?
Mario: no dad I didn't….. inc… I went to him… things
Giuseppe: eh ..
Mario: I have nothing to do with that one or that other one.
Giuseppe: as I told you
Mario. I want to stay calm, I'm… inc…. I went once to find out about Enzuccio's situation, what Enzuccio wanted to do…he said he didn't want to know anything
Giuseppe: because…inc Enzuccio had to give him the money…
Mario: eh..
Giuseppe: Did he owe us money?
Mario: (gestures with his hands)
Giuseppe: him to Enzuccio!
Mario: (nods his head)
Giuseppe: I know! .. no it's okay … I say … listen … in here not … but … inc … is he still outside?
Mario: and he left.
Giuseppe: then you write to me this one, then he sees the trouble and even goes away, should you take the trouble?
Mario: no okay…it's all something that I understood, and it's better that I have nothing to do with anything, nothing to do with anyone, I want to be at peace.
Giuseppe: eh .. so get out of the way and think about your wife and your children.
Mario: in fact here in a mess ~that Totore is also in the mess of these ones, but he is under investigation at large.
Giuseppe: and I read it in the paper, I read it in the paper. But tell me one thing, this boy who was killed… inc, is this the brother of Nunzio “the runner”?
Domenico: Nunzio's son ... (the reference is to Birra Vincenzo's father)
Mario: eh..
Domenico: Nunzio's son himself
Mario: Nunzio's son .. .inc.
Domenico: that is ……
Joseph: the son of .. inc.
Domenico: the runner is Pinuccio
Giuseppe: I mean it…
Mario: one of the brothers of this .. and a boy
Domenico: Nunzio's son
Mario: who grew up and through a series of circumstances found himself with these ~'idiots' and they themselves… (gestures with his right hand)
Giuseppe: but who Peppe (Giuseppe Mele, ed.), was he with….. (he waves his hand)
Mario: we were with Peppc (Giuseppe Mele, ed.),
Giuseppe: what a mess, my goodness!
Mario: no dad but…
Giuseppe: … inc arrests them all … arrests them all eh … they make it a “receipt … a receipt” (raids-arrests)
Mario: …. omitted …
Chronicles of Campania
Camorra: Here's how Gennaro Russo 'o suricillo ran the Contini clan's commercial "safe."
Gennaro Russo, aka "'o Suricillo," was on the run at dawn yesterday, inside a car along Naples' Asse Mediano.
