The DDA prosecutor has requested life imprisonment for Casalesi bosses Michele Zagaria, Giuseppe Caterino, and Francesco Schiavone, believed to be the instigators of the murder. A life sentence has also never been requested for the two mirror operators involved in the raid, Salvatore Nobis and Antonio Santamaria. Eight years and four months is the sentence requested for collaborators of justice Antonio Iovine and Francesco Zagaria.
On the evening of November 14, 2002, Lubrano, after leaving his office on Via Vittorio Veneto, was driving down the road in a Toyota Land Cruiser, headed toward a suburban area, when he was first overtaken by an Alfa Romeo 164 and then stopped near the Bar Giordano, where the commando killers began to fire several gunshots. Lubrano, in a desperate attempt to escape the ambush, managed to reverse the car, attempting to escape toward the town center.
The hitmen then gave chase, firing numerous shots along the entire route to Via Latina, where they caught up with and finished off Lubrano who, in the meantime, had attempted a desperate escape on foot after hitting the wall of a house with his off-road vehicle.
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According to the DDA's reconstruction, Lubrano was killed to avenge the murder of Emilio Martinelli, brother of the Casalesi boss Enrico, killed by Lubrano and his associates. The background was revealed by Antonio Abbate, a collaborator with the justice system during the Spartacus trial, and Martinelli heard those words via video conference. Upon his release from prison, he turned to the clan's leaders to seek his own personal justice.
The crime matured at the time of the war between the Nuvoletta clan and the Casalesi clan, to which the two victims were linked and found further cause in a conflict that arose between Lubrano and Martinelli in the context of the management, by the Caserta and Naples Camorra clans, of the Aima centers for the collection of excess fruit and vegetables (the so-called 'scamazzi'). An investigation conducted by the DDA of Naples and passed into history as Spartacus 3. the collaborator of justice Antonio Abbate said that Emilio Martinelli had been killed by Raffaele Lubrano and his associates. A statement that Enrico Martinelli, leader of the Casalesi and brother of the victim, heard live in court and which, after being released from prison in 2002, led him to mature his revenge.
“As soon as he was released (Martinelli) immediately met with me and Francesco Schiavone Cicciariello – the repentant Nicola Panaro recently explained – He brought us to the attention of the fact recounted by Antonio Abbate”. Martinelli then began to work on persuasion also “with the other top members of the clan, namely Antonio Iovine, Giuseppe Caterino and Michele Zagaria he gave his approval and each of the Casalesi bosses placed his own men for the commission of the crime”. The sentence for the six defendants who chose the abbreviated trial will be before Christmas.
