Burned alive in Frattamaggiore, Pasquale Pezzella's father: "It was my son"

“It was my son” and would have offered money for the treatment. These are some of the elements that would have led the prosecution to confirm the arrest of Pasquale Pezzella accused of the attempted murder of Nicola Liguori, two days ago in Frattamaggiore.

After the tragedy, after Nicola Liguori had been attacked and set on fire by an unknown man while he was sitting on a bench, in front of a statue of the Madonna, in Frattamaggiore, he went to the victim's house Father of Pasquale Pezzella, the 39-year-old accused of being the author of the gesture.

But first Claudio Pezzella, considered prominent element of the Camorra organizations local and brother of a life-sentenced boss, would have called Liguori's house. According to the story provided by Biagio Liguori, brother of the young man still hospitalized in serious conditions, he told investigators that Pezzella's father, after having asked not to notify the police, He would also have offered money for treatment.

Biagio explained that, initially, he preferred to hide this episode from the police because intimidated by the criminal nature of the suspect's family. He also said that his brother Nicola, during the transport to the hospital, despite being in pain, was still lucid: before arriving at the emergency room he had indicated Pasquale as the perpetrator of the attack together with another young man whose name he could not provide.

The circumstance made known by Biagio Giordano, brother of Nicola, is part of the elements collected by the investigators of the State Police, coordinated by the Prosecutor's Office of North Naples, and ended up in the arrest warrant for Pezzella, today validated by the investigating judge, who ordered the 39-year-old to be sent to prison. Pezzella has rejected all charges, but the father's phone call, Claudio Pezzella, considered a prominent figure in local Camorra organizations and brother of a boss serving a life sentence, supported the prosecution's hypothesis.

In the cell phone of Biagio Giordano, brother of Nicola Liguori, the investigators found the phone call that came from the cell phone registered to Claudio Pezzella's daughter; the latter, the day after the fact, would also have went to Liguori's mother's house, as told by the woman, with the aim of avoiding a complaint against her son, also making herself available to pay Nicola's medical expenses.

From the investigations, it later emerged that Biagio and his mother did not immediately report Pasquale Pezzella to the police for fear of reprisals given the criminal caliber of the 39-year-old's relatives.

The preliminary investigations judge of the Court of Naples North, Daniele Grunieri, has validated the arrest of Pasquale Pezzella, accused of having set Nicola Liguori on fire, the 36-year-old who is fighting for his life in the department Major burn victims at the Bari Polyclinic. He is accused of having doused with flammable liquid and set fire to a man sitting on a bench in Frattamaggiore on Thursday 30 June while he was on a video call with his girlfriend.

Today the 39-year-old denied all charges, admitting that he arrived at the scene of the crime shortly after, when Liguori was no longer there: “But to put out the flames that had engulfed the wooden bench.” He also said he knew the victim. “because they are from the same neighborhood” but do not “have any relationship with him”.

According to the prosecution, Pezzella set Liguori on fire because he accused him of stealing a scooter. Before losing consciousness, Liguori told his brother the name of the person who had set the fire and the motive.