Naples, Ugo Russo's mural is abusive and must be removed. The Council of State has issued its ruling.

Naples. The Council of State has ruled that the mural dedicated to the baby robber Ugo Russo in the Spanish Quarters is abusive and must be removed.

The 36 square meter giant poster must be removed as the Naples Regional Administrative Court had already established over a year ago. The Municipality can now enforce the ruling and, if the condominium does not independently remove the mural, proceed with its removal and request compensation for the costs.

The Council of State - as Il Mattino anticipates - while recognizing the peculiarity of the case which refers "to a mural painting in memory of a teenager from the neighborhood who died in circumstances connected to the carrying out of a robbery", will not enter into the merits of the matter, but simply express its opinion on the building issue.

“Any other “meta-legal” consideration, which is outside the powers of the administrative judge and with respect to which this judge cannot and must not guide the decision-making task, remains outside the decision-making context,” it is explained.

"This murals It must be removed immediately since, in addition to the building issues, it has always represented a tribute to crime, having also become a destination of pilgrimage for mafia families and camorristi.

Let us remember, for example, the episode that we reported in June 2021 when from Palermo they arrived at Spanish Neighborhoods friends and relatives of Emanuele Burgio, son of the boss Filippo Burgio, locked up in the Voghera prison for mafia and extortion, killed in an ambush in the Vucciria district of Palermo, to visit the family of Ugo Russo and pay homage to a symbol of crime.

Meanwhile, next April the trial against Ugo Russo's father will take place, who has repeatedly threatened me with death. I hope that justice will take its course.

While Russo's mural is being discussed, in Forcella the graffiti praising Luigi Caiafa have reappeared on the walls. Another baby robber of Naples died during an attempted robbery. The State must respond immediately. In our territories, tributes to bosses and baby robbers proliferate while the heroes and victims are not remembered” - the words of the deputy Francesco Emilio Borrelli who for years has fought against the public mythologizing of crime and the Camorra in the Naples area.