SHe repented in July and his statements were fundamental to reconstructing the scenario in which the ambush took place that cost the life of Luigi Mignano, 57-year-old brother-in-law of rival boss Ciro Rinaldi (he was married to the sister of the clan leader Maria), which took place on 9 April 2019 in via Ravello, in San Giovanni a Teduccio, in the eastern part of Naples. The killers opened fire a short distance from the entrance to an elementary school and in front of the terrified eyes of the victim's 4-year-old nephew. The boss who ordered that ambush, Umberto D'Amico, known as o lione, in July began to tell the prosecutors of the Neapolitan DDA the background not only of that murderous raid but of many others committed in the 'war' between the Mazzarellas and the Rinaldis for the control of the drug dealing and extortion areas in the eastern area and also in the center of Naples. The investigators had downloaded a spyware on his cell phone and were intercepting it and following all his movements. When questioned on July 8 by the magistrates, he immediately admitted to being the instigator of the crime and looking at the surveillance images of the area he gave a name to each face that appeared on the screens. The hit squad also knew that a 4-year-old child would also get into the car, they had seen him and continued shooting, even at the car. The brutality of a shooting group that showed no mercy emerges from the precautionary order with which the investigating judge of Naples Lucia De Micco ordered the prison of two alleged members of the D'Amico-Mazzarella clan, Giovanni Salomone, 52 years old and Giovanni Borrelli, known as giuann che llent, 50 years old. The first indicated by the repentant as the man who had stolen the scooter used in the crime and positioned it at the site of the ambush, the second rearrested after being released from prison: he had procured the weapon and cut it into pieces after the raid. His nickname is in fact 'the blacksmith'. There is a third suspect, who evaded arrest and, according to the repentant D'Amico, was the one who provided logistical support to the hitmen, procuring them a car to escape immediately after the ambush.
The killers' commando therefore knew that there was also a 4-year-old child in the car, they had seen him. Nevertheless, they continued to shoot, even at the car where the victim's four-year-old grandson was, who, to protect himself, had hidden under the front passenger seat. Pasquale, the child's father and the victim's son, was wounded in the leg during the raid. Furthermore, from an environmental interception recorded in the offices of the Naples Police Headquarters (included in the precautionary order issued on May 6 with which the first five people believed to be involved in the ambush in Mignano were arrested), the investigators also caught another horrifying detail: the raid was launched with the intention of hitting all their opponents present, including the child. Borelli is accused, among other things, of having made the weapon used in the ambush disappear, a 9mm caliber, which, according to another interception, was cut into various pieces with a grinder. The gun was procured, among other things, by Salomone, who is also accused of having participated in the decision-making and execution phases of the murder. Last May 6, Umberto Luongo, Gennaro Improta, Salvatore Autiero, Ciro Terracciano (the latter being the one who shot the Mignanos) and the boss Umberto D'Amico, known as "o' lione", on whose cell phone the investigators had downloaded a spyware, were arrested for the murder of Mignano. Pretrial detention in prison was later confirmed for all of them.
Article published on November 25, 2019 - 23:13
