Tommaso Covito, one of the many victims of the Camorra of Castellammare, shortly before being killed (the murder occurred on November 12, 2000 in Santa Maria la Carità), feeling in danger, told his sister that if something happened to him, those responsible would have to be identified in “…Gigino the prophet and Gennaro, son and carminuccio from Varano”, that is Gennaro D'Antuono (son of Carmine).
In 2003 Gigino the prophet for the registry office Louis DiMartino, a leading member of the Cesarano clan, was reached in prison by the precautionary order for the murder of Tommaso Covito while for Gennaro D'Antuono no evidence was found. At the preliminary investigations, the boss Di Martino's lawyers dismantled the accusations and the order was annulled.
Today, more than 20 years later, the cold case of the murder of Tommaso Covito, known as 'zione, a family of criminals once linked to the Learned clan it was solved with the new arrest of Luigi Di Martino o' Profete and this time also of Gennaro D'Antuono.
“The boss was against drug dealing in Ponte Persica”: this is the motive that would have driven the clan leader Ferdinand Cesarano to order the murder of Tommaso Covito, which took place in S. Maria La Carità on November 12, 2000.
The collaborator of justice had told the story behind the crime in 2006 Antonio Esposito, Said Tonino the blond.Esposito had confessed to being one of the killers who took part in the ambush that day, and had revealed the names of his accomplices.
According to the informer, it was Cesarano who ordered the killing of the criminal who had ambitions of expanding into the Ponte Persica drug market. Before him, that is, two years before, the informer from Castellammare di Stabia Julian Saturninus he had provided the magistrates of the DDA of Naples with another version, providing further details.
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