Naples. Armed youths wandering around the Ponticelli neighborhood: the police discover them and arrest two cousins, three pistols ready to fire seized.
This is the disturbing discovery made yesterday morning by the police officers. Ponticelli police station in via Luigi Crisconio. Several people who were cautiously walking around the neighborhood ran away at the sight of a police patrol.
A chase ensued during which the police stopped a first young man who had disposed of a Beretta 92FS pistol complete with a magazine containing 8 cartridges by throwing it into a flowerbed, while a second young man was stopped in a garage where he had attempted to hide and was found in possession of a Franchi-Llama revolver complete with a magazine containing 6 cartridges; furthermore, inside a room they found a Bruni Beretta blank pistol with a red cap and no cartridges.
Federico Ottaiano and Mattia Ottaiano, Neapolitan cousins aged 23 and 18 with criminal records, were arrested and charged with illegal possession and receiving stolen weapons.
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The investigations started by the police and forwarded to the Prosecutor's Office will have to clarify why the three young men were armed and what they were doing. The episode could be seen as part of the clan war that is raging with shootings and murders in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples.
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