Among the nine people affected by the precautionary custody order against Maddolini in the context of the investigation into the Belforte clan there is also Salvatore D'Albenzio, son and grandson of bosses historically allied with the Belfortes, despite the fact that the clan leader Domenico Belforte was in prison and despite the death of his father Domenico and the detention of his grandfather Clemente, he had decided that the 'family' had to return to being hegemonic in the territory of Maddaloni.
Reaffirming the alliance with the Belfortes, in their name he had imposed the 'pizzo' in a widespread manner throughout the territory, with the usual three annual installments (Christmas, Easter and Ferragosto), but above all by launching into a new business, that of the independent distributors of drinks and snacks, rented and managed by a 'friendly' company, to be imposed in all the commercial establishments in his area. Those who refused to pay were threatened and attacked. Precisely because the investigators of the Caserta Flying Squad noticed the escalation of violence, as when in a wiretap one of the affiliates advanced the idea of 'pounding on the windows with the Kalashnikov and setting fires' to intimidate those who did not submit, the prosecutor of the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate, Francesco Landolfi, requested and obtained from the investigating judge 9 precautionary custody measures for mafia-style criminal association, extortion, drug trafficking and dealing, crimes aggravated by mafia methods, and violation of the laws on weapons.
The young members of the clan in fact had pistols and rifles, including a sawn-off one of which the men of the leader Davide Corazzini found only the cartridges, weapons with which they terrorized entrepreneurs and traders. The name of the Belfortes, moreover, still induces them to give in to extortion demands, so much so that, according to what has been learned, many of the victims, summoned to the police station, even in the face of documentation acquired by investigators of the extortions committed between 2017 and 2019, denied having been threatened or pressured. The pushers were also forced to get supplies of hashish and cocaine from Salvatore D'Albenzio for their 'clients'.
“I express my sincere appreciation for the operation carried out by the Caserta Police against the Belforte clan – comments Nicola Morra, president of the Anti-Mafia Commission – Important arrests that demonstrate how the State, even in full emergency, does not lower its guard, especially in a territory that has seen legality reborn after the very hard blows inflicted on the Camorristi. We must never retreat and this in Caserta is the demonstration that communities and territory are rebuilt together with the State”.
Article published on May 4, 2020 - 10:42 pm
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