Following the blow to the Buonocore-Matron clan of Scafati and the Cesarano clan of Castellammare di Stabia, which resulted in a total of 100 years in prison , handed down by the Salerno Court of Appeal on December 22nd for an investigation conducted by the Salerno Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA) in the Scafati and Santa Maria La Carità areas that beheaded the two "allied" clans, the first exceptional release has arrived.
Pasquale Panariello , a leading figure in the Scafatuto crime scene, has been released from prison just two years after his arrest, despite having been convicted on appeal for Camorra association and sentenced to a total of 6 years and 1 month. His lawyer, Gennaro De Gennaro , granted his request , and Panariello is now a free man, but with a mandatory signature.
The Court of Appeal recognized the continuation of the sentence with another extortion crime he had already served and determined that Panariello should be released immediately. The Court of Appeal held that Panariello had served his entire sentence, even though he had only served two years for the conspiracy crime, recognizing his lawyer's argument that he was fungible for the entire period.
The facts reconstructed by the investigators go from 2014 to 2019 and led to 14 convictions for services and slot machines imposed on entrepreneurs under threats, often through the explosion of homemade devices manufactured by Panariello himself, belonging to the family of stokers from Scafati.
Pasquale Panariello was also involved in drug trafficking together with his brother Marcello , who died in February 2022, when he was just over twenty years old, the victim of a dramatic road accident.
According to the Salerno DDA, the two brothers, in addition to trafficking arms and drugs and being leading members of the Buonocore Matrone clan, did not disdain blackmailing traders, managing the illicit businesses in the centre of Scafati, the glassmaking area.
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