Pianura, Andrea Covelli's mother: "Give me back my son"

Naples. The voice of Rosary Nearby repeats like a refrain without music: “Give me back my son, he was a good boy, he has no connection with the Camorra. Give me back my son Andrea, dead or alive. I am living a nightmare”.

He repeated this yesterday to journalists who gathered in via Napoli in Pianura, a high crime rate area where a demonstration took place to ask for the release of Andrea Covelli, the boy from Pianura, who worked as an employee of a car wash, disappeared during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday last. Few people on the street but very noisy accompanied by the police and the presence of the regional councilor Francesco Emilio Borrelli.

The investigative trail leads to a cross-party vendetta in the context of the bloody Camorra feud that has been involving the Pianura clans for months, Soccavo and the Traiano district.

The mother of the missing 27-year-old is the sister of Antonio Vicino known as “Tonino lemon”, Fuorigrotta boss killed in a Camorra ambush in 2000. Antonio, Andrea's brother, has in the past been linked to the Camorra environment Carillo-Perfect. Two years ago he was arrested for drugs, then he had no more problems with the law. And it is precisely this having cut ties with the Carillo-Perfetto group, in contrast with the Esposito-Marsicano-Calone, would have led to the kidnapping of Andrea Covelli.

The mother said that images from two cameras in the area where the kidnapping took place show the moment he was forced to give up the scooter. “He went out to buy some croissants for a friend and never came back: we are living a nightmare, I want my son back dead or alive”.

The woman explains that Andrea he was stopped, riding his scooter, waiting for his friend to show up, when he was approached by another scooter with 2 people on it. “Seeing the images it looked like a robbery, they took his phone and wallet. Then the passenger got on my son Andrea's motorbike and the other one took him on his. Then all traces were lost”.