“Ammaturo’s life and career are an example. It’s as if our work today were dedicated to those who came before us.
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Ammaturo's death is a sacrifice that deserves a redemption that implies a collective and constant commitment from all sectors of society".
This was stated by the police commissioner of Naples, Maurizio Agricola, speaking at the fifteenth edition of the “Ammaturo Award – Legality City of Naples”, established in memory of the director of the Naples Flying Squad Antonio Ammaturo, killed on 15 July 1982 in Piazza Nicola Amore together with the selected agent Pasquale Paola.
The ceremony was preceded by the laying of laurel wreaths at the site of the ambush.
“We must ask ourselves – said the prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari – how society has changed, not how the Camorra has changed.
The age bar is lowering more and more, minors are freed from a criminal logic that is difficult to cope with. Naples has changed, even the approach to crime has changed”.
During the ceremony, the musical performance of the young talents of the Jazz Department of the Conservatory S. Pietro a Majella of Naples and, in closing, the awarding of prizes to the protagonists of some particularly deserving judicial police operations.
LIST OF AWARD WINNERS XV Edition of the Ammaturo Legalità Award - City of Naples.
YEAR OF PRODUCTION 2024
1) Flying Squad, San Ferdinando Police Station and GIPS;
First place to the Staff of the Flying Squad, the San Ferdinando Police Station and the GIPS who carried out a judicial police activity which ended with the execution of an arrest warrant for a suspect in the crime of homicide aggravated by the mafia methods provided for by art. 416 bis against Valda Francis Pio, author of the murder of Maimone Francesco Pio, member of the Valda Aprea criminal family active in the San Giovanni – Barra area, and of a custodial remand order issued against 7 people, held responsible, to varying degrees, for the crimes of aiding and abetting, carrying and possession of a common firearm.
ex aequo Mobile Squad;
First place ex aequo to the Flying Squad Staff who successfully carried out an investigation, which concluded with the identification and arrest of the perpetrator of the murder of Giovanni Cutolo which occurred on 31.8.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX.
2) Mobile Squad;
Second place went to the Flying Squad personnel who conducted a judicial police activity which ended with the execution of a precautionary custody order against 2 members of the Di Lauro clan, found responsible for mafia-type association, possession and carrying of firearms in a public place, kidnapping, torture, murder and destruction of a corpse against Green Jasmine, which occurred in Naples on November 21, 2004.
3) Mobile Squad and Police Station of San Giovanni – Barra;
Third place to the Staff of the Flying Squad and the San Giovanni Police Station who carried out the investigations into the murder aggravated by the mafia method perpetrated on 12 March 2024 against the Engineer Coppola Salvatore concluded with the execution of two arrest warrants by the PM, against the perpetrator and the instigator of the murder and with the criminal seizure of a weapon.
I Place
VQA VISSICCHIO LUIGI
COMM.C. PEN FRANCIS SAVERIO
V.ISP GRAZIOSI DANIELE
V.ISP FOREST UMBERTO
ASS PANETTIERI GIUSTINO
ASS OF THE HYACINTH RAFFAELLA
ASS.CC GALLO ANTONIO
ISP MARIMPIETRI MARCO
ISP TERRACCIANO IMMA
LUCA VELOTTI CC ASSOCIATION
ASS.C CAIAZZO GIANCARLO
ASS SGUEGLIA DANILO
DTS TROTTA MONICA
ISP FORGHERI ORESTE
ISP.T MAGLIACANO ANGELO
ISP BERGANTINO FABIO
ISP VOLLERO ANTONIO
AG.SC MASTROSIMONE MICHELE
AG.SC FONTANA GIOVANNI
VQA CONCAS ANTONIO
ISP.C. ALBANO VINCENZO
ISP MAROTTA LAURA
V.ISP MAUTONE CIRO
V.SOV TORTORA ANTONELLO
V.SOV IANNOTTA BARTOLOMEO
ASS.C SERVODIDIO PASQUALE
ASSOCIATION C VELARDI VINCENZO
ASS.C. LO SAPIO MARIAROSARIA
ASS.C PICARDI VINCENZO
ASS.C D'ANGELO CIRO
AG. XU CHA LY
2nd Place
ISP. D'AVINO VINCENZO
V.ISP ANTONINI MASSIMILIANO
V.ISP CORRIELLI SERGIO
V.ISP CELOTTO GIOVANNI
SOV.C OF SANGRO MASSIMO
ASS.C DESIATO DOMENICO
ASS SAMSON MASSIMILIANO
ASS AMBROSIO GIUSEPPE
3rd Place
SOST COMM THE PEN CORRADO
SOV CC VELOTTI GIUSEPPE
ASS C CAIAZZO GIANCARLO
VQ OLIVADESE ANDREA
ISP C MARIMPIETRI MARCO
ISP SMALDONE GAETANO
ASS CC NAPOLEON RAFFAELE
ASS CC VELOTTI LUCA
ISP TERRACCIANO IMMA
SOV IACOVELLI GIUSEPPE
ASS C SGUEGLIA DANILO
AG VELOTTI FRANCESCO
V ISP BY STRAVOLO MARCO
AG SC GAVINO GAVINO
ISP MARZOCCHELLA NUNZIA
ISP ANTONIO BERRETTA
Article published on 16 July 2024 - 17:54