Camorra, Abbinante clan: sentences of over 361 years imposed

Heavy-handedness by the preliminary investigations judge Tommaso Perrella, at the end of an abbreviated trial held in Naples: 361 years and 80 days of imprisonment were inflicted on thirty defendants, including leaders and underlings of the Abbinante Camorra clan.

The highest sentences, twenty years of imprisonment, reduced by a third for the ritual, were inflicted on the boss Arcangelo Abbinante, on Salvatore Mari , known as “o' tenente”, who before his capture was included in the list of the most dangerous wanted by the Ministry of the Interior, Alessio Cuomo and Patrizio Sergio.

These are the sentences for the other defendants:

1. Alessandro Errico: 6 years and a 21 thousand euro fine
2. Vincent Frattini: 6 years and 8 months
3. Francesco Nocera: 8 years
4. Salvatore Monreale: 8 years and a 20 thousand euro fine
5. Vincenzo Candido: 8 years, 5 months and 10 days
6. Antonio Esposito: 8 years, 6 months and a 21 thousand euro fine
7. Salvatore Volpicelli: 8 years, 10 months and 20 days with a fine of 40 thousand euros
8. Giuseppe Romano: 9 years and 4 months
9. Thomas Ciriello: 9 years and 4 months
10. Louis Basile: 9 years and 4 months
11. Gennaro Russo: 9 years and 4 months
12. Rose Marotta: 9 years, 5 months and 10 days
13. Gennaro Matuzzo: 10 years
14. Francis Bartolo: 11 years, 10 month and XNUMX days
15. Dominic Hammer: 11 years, 10 month and XNUMX days
16. Joanna Monetti: 11 years, 10 month and XNUMX days
17. Guido Esposito: 11 years and 4 months
18. Claudio Di Napoli: 12 years
19. Vincenzo Carrino: 12 years
20. John Jasmine: 12 years
21. Vincenzo Pagano: 12 years
22. Paul Cyprus: 13 years and 4 months
23. Francesco Abbinante: Class of '98, 14 years old
24. Andrea Arpino: 14 years and 10 months
25. Salvatore Iorio: 17 years, 9 months and 10 days
26. Nicholas Capasso: 18 years

Francesco Abbinante , Mari, Arpino, Di Napoli, Iorio, Gelsomino, and Guido Esposito were given probation for a period of no less than three years . Arcangelo Abbinante, Paolo Ciprio, Alessandro Errico, Guido Esposito, Salvatore Volpicelli, and Vincenzo Pagano (defended by attorney Nicola Pomponio) were acquitted of some of the charges "for not having committed the crime" (the latter charge being extortion).

Acquittal for some of the crimes contested but with the formula "because the fact does not exist" for Antonio Esposito and Salvatore Iorio. The defense team, in addition to Pomponio, included, among others, the lawyers Dello Iacono, Regine, Mottola and Procentese. The reasons will be made known within 30 days.

(in the photo from top left Arcangelo Abbinante, Salvatore Mari, Francesco Abbinante, Salvatore Iorio and Claudio Di Napoli; bottom left Antonio Esposito, Rosa Marotta, Guido Esposito, Paolo Ciprio and Salvatore Morriale)