Naples. The top management group of the DeMartino, the infamous Xx of the Fiat district of Ponticelli under arrest since yesterday following a lightning investigation by the Naples DDA.
The investigating judge of Naples has validated the first six of the 11 arrest warrants issued by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples against members of the De Martino family accused of complicity in attempted extortion aggravated by mafia purposes.
The judge confirmed the arrest and ordered the prison sentence for Salvatore DeMartino, 24 years old; Mary Pignatiello, 26 years old (De Martino's wife); Francis Pignatiello, 46 years old; Patricia Christmas, 41 years old; Pasquale Pignatiello, 23 years old and Mountain Luck, 47 years old. The measures were notified yesterday to the suspects by the Carabinieri of the Naples operational unit.
These are people who are accused, in various capacities, extortionate requests to a unauthorized parking who was practicing illegally near theSea Hospital, and a woman who ran a drug dealing ring was beaten to force her to give part of her earnings to a rival clan.
The "pentiti", including a former affiliate of the Camorra, explain the widespread control of the eastern area of Naples. De Micco clan, linked to the De Martino family, who after escaping an ambush on November 2, 2020, presented himself to the Carabinieri in cercola, on December 4, 2020, to start its collaboration with Justice: “…as long as the De Martinos were part of the Camorra cartel – explains the collaborator – the extortion money all ended up in the common fund from which money was taken to buy drugs, weapons and for the salaries of the affiliates, the payment of lawyers and the maintenance of prisoners…”.
In the same interrogation, dating back to last March, the repentant also explains that each group dealt with “of extortion against entrepreneurs, as well as against individuals who carried out illegal activities in the area, such as cigarette smugglers, local markets selling counterfeit goods and even individuals who carried out insurance fraud and cheque cashing…”.
In addition to the illegal parking attendant who “worked” near the Ospedale del Mare, there was also a woman who ran a shop square, beaten to force her to give part of her earnings to a rival clan.
Yesterday during the operations the Carabinieri used the firefighters to knock down the fence of entrance to the school where De Martino was illegally living. Notification of the measure was particularly complicated for the Carabinieri. The area was also monitored by a system of cameras.
From September 26, 2020 to October 6, the day he was killed Carmine D'Onofrio, natural son of Giuseppe De Luca Bossa, in turn brother of the lifer Antonio, known as “Tonino o' sicco”, in the Ponticelli district of Naples there have been about ten ambushes, three of which were fatal (those in which the victims were killed Giulio Fiorentino, Salvatore DeMartino and Carmine D'Onofrio) and five explosive device explosions (one of which near the home of Marco DeMicco).
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The urgency of the precautionary measures issued by the DDA (PM Simona Rossi and Antonella Fratello) and carried out yesterday by the State Police and the Carabinieri, are based on the risk of escape but aim to mitigate the social danger inherent in the armed competition of local criminal groups determined to take over the management of the criminal business in the eastern outskirts of the Neapolitan capital.
(in the photo from left the boss Francesco DeMartino, Francesco Pignatiello and his son Pasquale Pignatiello
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