He knew the clan would not forgive him and so he asked his mother to sell the house. "Let's make 50 million and start giving it to them. Let's all sign and sell."
And then: "How should I solve this? They only have to kill me now.", commented Salvatore Lausi, the Mazzarella cashier killed by his clan on October 6, 2002, on the phone with his family. A hole of 100 million lire and a chilling background: "They're killing me".
The phone calls are in the order from the investigating judge Giovanni Vinciguerra, of the Court of Naples who, at the request of the Dda has ordered three precautionary measures against the two instigators and one of the material executors, respectively the bosses Vincenzo and Michele Mazzarella and the then newly 18 year old Salvatore Barile.
Camorra, Salvatore Lausi wanted to pay the debt to avoid being killed
"Let's try to raise the money. I'll sell the car and we'll make 10 million - suggests Lausi's brother-in-law - they played a nice little trick on you... they played a really big one on you." Then the two speculate on who the thief might be. And the brother-in-law accuses the other sister's husband: "He was the one who did it."
And the sister, to find out who had taken them, even asked for information from a fortune tellerThe ordinance, for the facts it reports and the twists it contains, seems like the script of a film about the Camorra. The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Napoli, coordinated by the DDA, discovered that one of the killers, Ciro Giovanni Spirito, who committed suicide in prison, with the money taken for that murder he bought a Honda Transalp, motorcycles in vogue at the time.
By shedding light on the cold case, a more precise identikit also emerges Marianna Julian, daughter of the historic boss of Forcella, Luigi, repentant wife of Michele Mazzarella for years, considered one of the leading members of the clan of the same name.
Marianna, a "blue blood", heir of an ancient Camorra, is defined as a real "boss in a skirt" from a "pentito", a woman who made decisions without caring about the regent of the time but always showing the utmost respect for her husband, for whom she acted as liaison officer.
LausiAfter discovering the theft, he knew it could cost him his life. This is evidenced by phone calls intercepted by the police, in which he speaks to his mother and brother-in-law. To the latter, he says, heartbroken: "How do I fix this... they're just going to kill me now..."
But that murder, which the Mazzarella leaders wanted to keep secret, was about to trigger a war with their long-time rivals, the Secondigliano Alliance.
The murder of Salvatore Lausi, the cashier of the Mazzarella clan held responsible for a 100 million lire shortfall, he was about to trigger a war between the Mazzarellas and their bitter enemies from the Secondigliano Alliance.
It was revealed to the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Naples by Joseph Misso, a collaborator of justice, at the time among the leaders of the clan of the same name which was allied with the Mazzarella clan. Misso clan He didn't know who killed Lausi. He only knew that he was murdered on "their" territory.
A serious act that could have been committed by the Secondigliano Alliance which, in order to carry it out, had gone too far, had even crossed the border. It was for this reason that Joseph Missi (uncle almost namesake of the person who made the statements to the investigators on these facts, learned "de relato") decided to summon Gennaro Mazzarella (Vincenzo's brother) to ask for explanations.
Gennaro initially denied involvement, and Missi responded that the Secondigliano Alliance (still a rival of the Mazzarellas) should be attacked. Thus, faced with the threat of starting a war, Gennaro Mazzarella was forced to reveal that the cashier had been killed by one of their members, but on his own initiative, that is, without the consent of the higher-ups.
Only later, aware that his lies could have cost the life of the killer (indicated in the person of Ciro Giovanni Spirito, but the commando also included Salvatore Barile and Vincenzo De Bernardo), Gennaro Mazzarella asked Missi to put aside his plans for revenge, to avoid him putting an end to their alliance.
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