The bomber from Vico: 'I was forced otherwise they would have fired me'

Vico Equnese. He had a bag in his hands containing the clothes he had worn on the night of February 17th when he planted a bomb in front of the garage of the father of a construction contractor. "I was forced to do it, otherwise they would have fired me." He tried to justify himself, but investigators didn't believe him. He did, however, confess to being the perpetrator of one of the intimidating acts that terrorized the area between January and February. Vico Equense “scene of a disturbing activity of intimidation of an extortionate nature against a construction company”, as the investigating judge Emma Aufieri wrote in the order that led to the house arrest of Pasquale Cioffi, 35 years old. He is the third recipient of a precautionary measure that in July had already led to the imprisonment of Michele Ferraro and Rosario Salan, a building contractor and his handyman because he had threatened another contractor with the aim of blocking the execution of the redevelopment works of the former boarding school of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers in Montechiaro. Thus, on the night between 21 and 22 January, an industrial vehicle was set on fire outside the construction site. Four days later, two anonymous, threatening phone calls were made to the director of the works and the company's trustee. On the night of 31 January, the entrance door of the Torre Barbara hotel, also attributable to the same construction company, was damaged. In this case, a homemade bomb was placed that destroyed the entrance. The same modus operandi was used on February 17 in Via Avellino: this time the garage owned by the father of the company owner was targeted. On January 26, two phone calls were made to the company's trustee, they were the two arrested in July, who were identified by a camera in the Circumvesuviana station, from where the threatening phone calls were made. "Hello, good morning, listen to me, tell your boss that he has to get in touch for that offer in Vico Equense, okay? He knows, otherwise we'll take it out on you too. Otherwise you'll end up like the truck." The shadow of the Camorra and the Di Martino clan hangs over the whole story. In fact, there are several contacts between Ferraro and the boss Leonardo, known as "o lione", who is however not involved in the investigation.