Naples. Investigators have no doubt that the target of the failed ambush last night on Via Botteghelle, on the border between San Giorgio a Cremano and San Giovannia Teduccio, was the underage son of imprisoned mafia boss Roberto Mazzarella. Supporting the investigation are images from several local security cameras, which reportedly captured the arrival of the two hitmen on a high-powered motorcycle and their subsequent escape. The group also included six other young friends of theirs, all minors with no criminal record. The raid was swift, but the young men, evidently accustomed to being on high alert, knew something was about to happen as soon as they saw the couple riding the scooter, their faces covered by full-face helmets. The two appeared to be bar patrons who had stopped for a drink. So, while the man in the back seat got out, brandishing a gun, the group of young men with the two Mazzarellas began to flee into the bar to seek shelter. They succeeded, and while the armed gunman, wearing a full-face helmet and having wasted precious seconds "surprising" himself by drawing his gun from his pocket, continued to fire at eye level, they were already inside. The bullets shattered the bar's windows, and shards of glass injured a customer in the head. The man, transported to Loreto Mare Hospital, received six stitches and was released with a prognosis of about ten days. The Forensic Police found seven spent shell casings and three fragments of a 9x21 caliber gun on the ground, and three more bullets inside a car parked near the bar. Since yesterday, the investigation has been ongoing by officers from the Barra-San Giovanni police station and the Naples Flying Squad. The hypothesis that the ambush originated with the Rinaldi gang is the one being followed most closely by investigators. And this means that the level of conflict, after the numerous assaults suffered in recent months by the "enemy" boss of the Villa neighborhood and his allies, relatives of the royals of the Pazzigno neighborhood, has further escalated. Following the wounding of Giovanni Salomone, brother-in-law of the D'Amico "pirates" of Via Nuova Villa and linked to the Mazzarellas, in April on Corso Protopisani, the attack last night is a sign that the conflict has reached a fever pitch. Trying to kill the enemy boss's underage son means setting off a bomb. Investigators are on high alert because they expect an equally resounding response from the Mazzarellas.
(in the photo the location of the shooting and in the box the imprisoned boss Roberto Mazzarella)
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