The search by the police for the perpetrators of the shootings against the provincial command of the Carabinieri of Naples on March 2020, XNUMX, which were triggered in retaliation after the death of the baby robber Ugo Russo, was ruining business in the drug dealing areas of Spanish Neighborhoods and one of the leaders of the local criminal groups decided to ask the parents of the two protagonists of the raid to have their sons turned themselves in.
This emerges from an interception contained in the order with which the investigating judge of Naples Carla Sarno, at the request of the DDA, ordered today dozens and dozens of arrests notified at dawn by the Carabinieri and the Flying Squad of Napoli. The retaliation was triggered immediately after the death of Ugo Russo, the fifteen-year-old killed on the night of February 29, 2020, near the village of Saint Lucia, in Naples, while he was trying to rob a soldier's watch in the company of an accomplice.
According to the conversation, the person who expressed his intention to ask the two boys to turn themselves in was: Eduardo Saltamacchia, head of the criminal group of the same name, today reached by a precautionary measure. Saltalamacchia wanted to go to Carmine Furgiero (also a leading member of a criminal group, hit today by an arrest warrant): “Now I have to go over there to 'o pop (Carmine Furgiero's nickname)... I have to fight for 5 minutes”. Vincenzo Sammarco, 22 years old, and John Grasso, 23 years old, the latter cousin of Hugh Russo, who confessed, were arrested on March 9 for that scooter attack against the headquarters of the provincial command of the Carabinieri in Naples.
Article published on May 29, 2023 - 13:15 pm
