Casapesenna, a public park in place of Zagaria's villa bunker. Ten years after the capture of the boss, the house will be demolished.
Abandoned for over ten years, the villa with garden on via Mascagni in Casapesenna will be demolished, where the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria was found – on 7 December 2011 – after more than three decades of being on the run in a specially created bunker.
In place of the villa that belonged until the confiscation by the State to the last sutlers of the clan leader, namely the Inquieto spouses, a public park will be created. Today's edition of "Il Mattino" reported the news. Where the bunker once stood, the mayor of Casapesenna Marcello De Rosa guaranteed, an olive tree will be planted, "a symbol of peace where there was death before".
The decision was made at the end of a meeting attended by the mayor, the regional councilor for confiscated assets Mario Morcone, the prefect Giuseppe Castaldo and the deputy of the DDA of Naples Maurizio Giordano, who deals specifically with investigations into the Zagaria clan.
The decision to demolish the property closes a situation that has been dragging on since Zagaria's arrest; the year after his capture, the Caserta Flying Squad seized the villa for illegal building, and then confiscation occurred in the following years. But the property was never reused in defiance of the law; the keys to enter were lost and never found, and above all there were disagreements about the fate of the property between the various competent institutional bodies: the Municipality wanted to reuse the villa directly, the Confiscated Property Agency instead wanted to demolish it.
In the end, the spirit of interinstitutional collaboration prevailed, and during the meeting it was decided to demolish it, which will be carried out by the fire brigade (the Region will pay for it), and to create a public park.
Article published on 9 June 2022 - 16:09
