“He now has the thought that he has to do prison…”, said on the phone, without knowing that she was being wiretapped, like all the family members, the wife of Nicola Spina, arrested together with his brother Anthony in Scalea in Calabria where they had taken refuge. They are accused of being the murderers of 19-year-old Emanuele “Pisellino” Errico on 26 April in via Chiaro di Luna in the Conocal district of Ponticelli. The two will appear before the investigating judge today for questioning on probation. The investigators were put on the trail of the two brothers by the courageous complaint of the victim’s mother, who a few days after the murder had gone to the police and, as reported by Il Roma, had said: “When I went out into the street hearing the shots, I noticed a blue car fleeing from the scene of the ambush and I was able to make out two young people inside. On the passenger side I recognized Antony Spina, a boy my son often hung out with, as did his brother Nicola. I'm sure it's him: in the neighborhood he's nicknamed 'o cecchetto o o' cecato'. According to investigators, it was him who opened the fire. Despite his very young age - he had just turned 18 - he was considered a tough guy in the neighborhood. His Facebook profile is a corollary of violence: "If you provoke a lion then don't complain if it tears you to pieces", he wrote a few months ago. The fight and subsequent murder with Emanuele 'Pisellino' Errico arose over the division of the proceeds of thefts and robberies that the young Conocal gang committed around the area. The victim, the day before being killed (a few months earlier he had posted on his Facebook profile: 'Conocal, here I was born and here I will die') had set fire to the scooter of the two Spina brothers parked under their building as a revenge. The smoke had forced the families of the two brothers to leave. So they decided to punish the culprit and went to the owner of a supermarket across the street to see the footage from the video surveillance cameras. Those videos nail Errico, who was also recognized because he had a “swaying” gait. The next day the ambush was triggered despite the fact that they knew about the camera. It was the same one that filmed them in action. A few days later the victim’s mother went to the police and said she saw them kill her son.
And so Anthony and Nicola disappear from the neighborhood: first they go to relatives in Castel Volturno, then to other relatives in via Nazionale in Poggioreale, finally to Scalea. They split up, then reunite while waiting for a definitive trip to Germany. The whole family talks about them on the phone and without precautions. Even Nicola Spina speaks out: “If they were going to ambush me, they would have done it already”. But their escape has also created problems for the family. The father is angry with Nicola because “he went to Calabria and took all the money without thinking of anyone”. And finally the mother-in-law speaks to her daughter (and mother of Nicola’s two little girls) to convince her to think about herself and the little ones: “They got themselves into something bigger than them. It would have been better for Nicola to say from the start: it happened, it was a mistake, I don’t know if it was me. He shouldn’t think about his brother (Anthony) because in my opinion his brother made him do the tarantella”.
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