After twenty-two years, the first degree conviction for the murder of Salvatore Lausi, known as “Pirulino”, killed by the Mazzarella clan because he was suspected of having stolen a large sum of money from the gang's coffers.
The investigating judge Luca Rossetti of the Court of Naples, at the end of the trial conducted with an abbreviated procedure, sentenced the bosses Michele Mazzarella e Salvatore Barile to thirty years of imprisonment each. The decision follows the line of the prosecution, which had requested precisely the sentence then inflicted on the two defendants.
Both, Mazzarella and Barile, had asked to be tried with the abbreviated procedure, conditioned on the examination of the collaborator of justice Salvatore Giuliano, known as “'o Russo”, former boss of Forcella and main accuser.
However, in October the judge rejected Michele Mazzarella's request, which was judged with a "dry" abbreviated trial. The outcome was different for Barile, who hoped to overturn the circumstantial evidence thanks to the new evidence: an attempt that did not lead to the desired result.
Salvatore Lausi, killed in via Vergini on October 6, 2002, was supposedly eliminated for having stolen 100 million of the old lire intended for the clan's coffers. Michele Mazzarella, son of the boss Vincenzo, dissatisfied with Lausi's actions, allegedly ordered his cousin Salvatore Barile to kill him from prison.
lo zio Gennaro Mazzarella, known as “'o Schizzo”, initially arrested but later exonerated, is said to have organised the ambush, even if this circumstance was later denied by the defence's findings.
The people who killed Lausi were Ciro Giovanni Spirito and Vincenzo De Bernardo, known as “Pisello” (both deceased)
The material perpetrators were Ciro Giovanni Spirito, the only one to shoot, and Vincent DeBernardo, known as “Pisello” (both deceased), who acted during the raid in via Vergini.
Article published on 17 September 2024 - 09:08
