She couldn't stay with the man she was madly in love with and twice set fire to cars her new girlfriend left parked on the street in Pimonte, a mountain town near Castellammare di Stabia in the province of Naples. Maria Carfora, known as "the fire," was arrested by the Carabinieri for arson and threats. She is the sister of boss Nicola, known as "the fire" (and not her daughter, as investigators erroneously claimed, ed.), a former member of the Fontanella clan of Sant'Antonio Abate and then of the Imparato clan. He was imprisoned for about 20 years and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of businessman Michele Cavaliere, killed in 1996 for refusing Carfora's extortion demands. The woman was infatuated with a man with whom she worked at a car dealership, but the love was unrequited because he liked someone else. This woman became a victim, forced to leave the village and move to Milan due to threats. "It has to stop, this has to stop. Carmine, I have to get out of here. You can't set fire to other cars when the guards don't do anything," she told her partner, distraught, after the second blaze, knowing for certain this time that it was Maria Carfora, "who I won't tell you said about me in the village," she added over the phone. "She should be scared and say, 'What the hell, they set fire to every car they buy me?' I want to go back to Pimonte to see her face," the boss's sister said over the phone, intercepted during an investigation ordered by the Torre Annunziata prosecutor's office and the Naples Anti-Mafia Directorate. According to the Carabinieri, two people helped the woman: Vincenzo Spagnuolo, believed to be close to the D'Alessando clan, who allegedly did it for money ("She still owes me that money for that incident," investigators hear) and Stefania Giordano, who allegedly did it out of "friendship" ("She told me if you don't do this, you're done with me," she reveals, unaware she was being listened to). The victim's reconstruction of events for the Carabinieri is dramatic. "After the two fires, I returned to Pimonte after a week's vacation at the seaside. Carfora followed me while I was driving my third car, and then his family members were spying on me. From that day on, I decided to leave my hometown," Iolanda laments.
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