Giuseppe Scuotto was murdered in an ambush of evident Camorra origin while riding a moped along Corso Novara in Naples. The State Police, after more than twenty years, has arrested two people accused of being materially responsible for the murder, which occurred in May 2000.
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The investigations, reopened by the Flying Squad of the Naples Police Headquarters in November 2022 thanks to statements from collaborators of justice and new investigative evidence, have made it possible to reconstruct what happened.
The investigators, analyzing documents dating back twenty-two years, found further evidence to support the previous evidence, also making use of modern investigative technologies such as wiretaps, collecting new and serious evidence of guilt.
According to the investigations, the two arrested, already affiliated with the Licciardi clan and Contini, allegedly committed the murder as part of an internal “purge.” The motive would be linked to the victim’s autonomous management of illicit business without the consent of the clan’s top brass, as well as the fear that Scuotto could undertake a path of collaboration with justice.
Giuseppe Scuotto was the area leader in the Vasto district
At the time of the events, Scuotto had reached the rank of area boss for the Contini clan in the Vasto district and had gathered around him several young affiliates with expansionist ambitions, determined to consolidate control of the territory and criminal activities in open contrast with the directives of the leaders of the clan to which they belonged.
Article published on 29 October 2024 - 10:49
It is important that justice has finally taken its course after so many years. However, it is sad to think of the people involved in these events.
What a sad story, organized crime brings only pain and destruction.