An unprecedented judicial blow has put an end to the reign of terror of the De Luca Bossa-Minichini clan.
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Yesterday, a historic ruling issued by the preliminary hearing judge of the Court of Naples sentenced 27 affiliates to almost three centuries in prison, inflicting almost three centuries of prison on one of the most powerful cartels in the city.
For years, Ponticelli has been prisoner of a nightmare: rivers of drugs, extortion, intimidation and murder have marked the lives of the inhabitants, forced to live under the yoke of the mafia. But justice has arrived, inflicting a very hard blow to the bosses and their henchmen.
The investigation into the De Luca Bossa-Minichini-Casella-Reale superclan culminated last year with the execution of 31 precautionary measures out of 55 suspects.
Among those involved were bosses, leading figures of criminal groups and equally well-known figures, including Giuseppe and Emmanuel De Luca Bossa, Michele Minichini with his sister Martina, Giuseppe Righetto known as “Peppe 'o blob” and Maria D'Amico, sister of the boss Nunzia known as “'a passilona”.
19 years in prison also for the newly repented Luisa De Stefano
Among the sentences, the 19-year prison sentence handed down to the newly repented Luisa De Stefano, the crazy woman who only two weeks ago confessed in court to her participation, as a swindler, in some murders, stands out.
The accused were charged with various counts of criminal association for the purpose of drug trafficking and numerous episodes of illicit detention, all aggravated by mafia methods.
The drug dealing bases, as Il Roma recalls, were discovered in Piazza De Gasperi, Piazza Comunale Miranda and Piazza Cozzolino Lot 10. One of these was managed by Gabriella Onesto, partner of the boss Michele Minichini.
The sentences in detail
- Luigi Austero, 3 years and 10 months
- Nicola Aulisio, 17 years old
- Roberto Boccardi, 5 years old
- Vincenzo Corrado, 3 years and 1 month
- Ciro Cotugno, 11 years and 2 months
- Michele Damiano, 11 years and 4 months
- Maria D'Amico, 8 years and 5 months
- Umberto De Luca Bossa, 3 years and 10 months
- Antonella De Stefano, 10 years and 10 months
- Francesco Paolo Di Dato, 13 years old
- Elizabeth Esposito, 9 years old
- Ciro Esposito, 9 years and 6 months
- Ciro Ferraro, 10 years old
- Vittorio Folliero, 5 years and 6 months
- Mariarca Gala, 8 years old
- Salvatore Guasco Russo, 6 years and 8 months
- Youseff Hathroubi, 2 years and 8 months
- Immacolata Fallace, 4 years and 2 months
- Alessandro Ferlotti, 8 years and 10 months
- Maria Lazzaro, 10 years old
- Vincenza Maione, 19 years old
- Michele Minichini, 4 years and 5 months
- Martina Minichini, 2 years and 2 months
- Gilda Musella, 3 years and 4 months
- Gabriella Onesto, 19 years old
- Raffaella Pelliccia, 2 years and 6 months
- Giuseppe Righetto, 18 years old
- (in the photo above from the left Michele Minichini, Luigi Austero, Gabriella Onesto Maria D'Amico, Luisa De Stefano and Vincenza Maione; below, always from the left Mariarca Gala, Nicola Aulisio, Emanuel De Luca Bossa, Ciro Cotugno, Giuseppe Righetto and Alessandro Ferletti)
Article published on 26 September 2024 - 07:03
