La Procura di Napoli (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) ha chiesto il rinvio a giudizio per sette persone ritenute organiche al clan camorristico Piccolo-Letizia, operante nel Casertano, in particolare nei comuni di Marcianise e Capodrise; l’udienza preliminare si terra’ davanti al tribunale di Napoli (Gup Fabio Provvisier) next September 29th.
The Piccolo-Letizia clan is historically a rival of the other clan that has been active in Marcianise for decades, the Belforte clan, but in recent years, thanks to some releases from prison and above all the many investigations that have weakened the Belforte clan, they have regained strength in the area.
This is demonstrated by the investigation of the DDA of Naples (substitute Luigi Landolfi), which last April 5th brought to prison for Camorra association, possession of weapons and various extortions with the mafia method committed and attempted Agostino Piccolo, Gaetano Monica and Salvatore Letizia (brother of the collaborator of justice Primo Letizia), and to house arrest Ottavio Sorbo, Gaetano Viciglione, Amedeo Belvisto and Pasquale Regino; an eighth suspect, Francesco Piccolo, was not arrested because he died.
All have been requested to be sent to trial (among the defendants' lawyers are Mariano Omarto, Mirella Baldascino, Umberto Elia, Bernardino Lombardi, Domenico Esposito). Among the extortion episodes contested is the one relating to the company that carries out the solid urban waste collection service in Marcianise, the "societa' consortile Marcianise servizi arl", whose owner Antonio Deodati paid the clan's emissaries, in particular Amedeo Belvisto, sums between 2 and 3 thousand euros before the Easter and Christmas holidays in the years 2014 and 2015; a few years later, in 2019, the defendants Agostino Piccolo and Gaetano Monica were unable to get paid by the same company, due to the refusal of an employee who had been approached.
In other circumstances it has emerged that extortionists, lacking money, did not disdain to take products from economic operators, without obviously paying for them; this is the case of Gaetano Monica, who was intercepted while "taking" some pairs of Nike and Fila shoes in the shop of a blackmailed entrepreneur.
At least seven extortions were not carried out due to the victims' refusal to pay; among these is the supermarket entrepreneur Paolo Siciliano, who in 2019 did not want to give in to the threats of the Piccolo-Letizia clan, but in January 2021 he was then arrested for continuity to another clan, the one led by Michele Zagaria.
Article published on 26 July 2022 - 14:24
