That the Camorra clans of Naples were all in the hands of the super narcos Raphael Imperial or rather in the drug shipments that he was capable of bringing into the city and Campania was almost a known fact. But reading the reports of the informants that are in the records of the precautionary order signed by the investigating judge Linda D'Ancona you're left speechless.
The repentant Biagio Esposito, a leading figure of the secessionist clan explained that the clan Beloved Pagan he wanted to destroy the whole family By Lauro during the New Year's Eve 2003.
According to the collaborator of justice Imperial Lelluccio he bought the weapons in Holland and they would have been used by the clan at least between 2004 and 2007, and perhaps even beyond. Esposito also reports an ambush with a bazooka that the secessionists had in mind to carry out: a man from the Amato Pagano, says the collaborator of justice, “… he went to Lelluccio o' parente (Imperiale, ed.) in Holland, to train to use the bazooka… to prepare an ambush against all the males of the Di Lauro family on New Year's Eve 2003, when Paolo Di Lauro (the clan leader, nicknamed 'Ciruzzo o' milionario') met with all his children…”. The ambush, however, was never carried out.
The repentant Biagio Esposito also stated:
“Imperiale was indicated … by Amato Raffaele and Pagano Cesare (the two leaders of the clan of the same name, ed.) as a supplier of loads between Europe and Italy of 200-300 kilos per car that 'the relative' (as Imperiale was nicknamed in the 'splitter' clan, ed.) purchased both in Spain and, twice a year, also in South America…”.
The criminal duo formed by Raffaele Imperiale and Mario Cerrone, the two drug traffickers who were the recipients of a precautionary measure in prison issued by the investigating judge of Naples at the request of the Neapolitan Prosecutor's Office, were capable of having the Amato Pagano clan, the so-called "splitters" of the Neapolitan Di Lauro clan, also loaded with 200-300 kg of cocaine, sometimes even 400 kg. To inform the investigators about the ability of Imperiale (under arrest in Dubai since the beginning of last August and recipient of an extradition request) to export large quantities of the narcotic substance for the largest Europe's drug dealing center, Secondigliano, was the collaborator of justice, Biagio Esposito.
Esposito reports that he learned this information firsthand because he was present at the summits that Imperiale held with the bosses in the clan's hideouts, including abroad. Meetings also took place in a restaurant in Barcelona which, the "pentito" reports, was later purchased by the boss Cesare Pagano. On that occasion, Esposito reports, the Amato Paganos asked Imperiale and Cerrone for weapons for the "Camorra war" with the Di Lauro clan: "... both Amato Raffaele and Pagano Cesare placed an order for weapons specifying that they had to be Kalashnikovs, 9x21 (semi-automatic pistols, ed.), 38s, i.e. revolver pistols and related ammunition. O' relativee said he was absolutely capable of supplying them with weapons for the war".
(in the photo the Di Lauro house reproduced in the first series of Gomorrah and from the top left Raffaele Imperiale in a frame taken from the film of the Dubai police at the time of his arrest, and then Cesare Pagano, Raffaele Amato and below Paolo Di Lauro better known as Ciruzzo o' milionario)
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