Camorra, "I'm tired of this life", Raffaele Paone, leader of Vanella Grassi, repents

Naples. "I'm tired of this life, I deny my past", with these words pronounced yesterday morning in the courtroom during the trial against him and an accomplice accused of extortion, the ras Raphael Paone ditto “Rafaniello”, a leading member of the Vanella Grassi clan has decided to repent.

The 39-year-old is one of the leading members of the Mafia gang “Turn around” of Secondigliano being the cousin of the boss Vincenzo Grimaldi in turn son of the deceased boss Raffaele Grimaldi ditto “donut”

The 39-year-old had already expressed to investigators his desire to repent in recent days, but the circumstance was "certified" only yesterday morning, when Paone asked to speak during the hearing of the trial in which he is accused of racketeering together with Francesco Lomasto said the finch.

The two were arrested in December last year for a series of widespread extortions against traders and entrepreneurs in St. Peter in Patierno.

Paone, despite being under house arrest, continued to commit crimes in the name of the clan. He was released from prison in June 2022, despite a 16-year prison sentence. But his arrest must have undermined his criminal certainties since he has now decided to side with the state.

 He had been sentenced to 16 years in prison

The news of his repentance was anticipated yesterday by Internapoli and today it has found wide echo in newspapers such as Cronache di Napoli and Roma. And now the magistrates of the anti-mafia prosecution are waiting for important news to give a further push to the clan of Vanella Grassi.