Killed by his clan, life sentences cancelled for Amato-Pagano leaders

Six life sentences have been cancelled by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Naples in the trial related to the murder of Luigi Barretta, executed in 2005 during an internal purge of the Amato-Pagano clan

In this new ruling, the judges reformed the previous sentence, sentencing the leaders and ras of the Scissionisti clan to thirty years of imprisonment.

Barretta's murder raised questions about internal violence in criminal organizations and the possibility of justice for the victims of such acts. The Court decided to reduce the responsibilities attributed in the first-instance sentence, leading to a significant modification of the sentences originally imposed.

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Life sentences cancelled for the boss Cesare Pagano, Carmine Amato, Carmine Pagano, and also Ciro Caiazza, Vincenzo Notturno, Lucio Carriola. The sentences were commuted to 30 years in prison.

The defense team includes lawyers Domenico Dello Iacono, Luigi Senese, Andrea Di Lorenzo, Luigi Ferro and Isidoro Spiezia.

Luigi Barretta was killed for slapping Raffaele Amato's nephew

It was May 11, 2005, in the midst of the first feud. The young man was just 22 years old when he was killed. He was found wrapped in a plastic bag of the kind used for waste in the countryside of Crispano. Killed elsewhere and then transported to the locality of Tavernola

According to the investigations, "the murder was committed to consolidate the power of Raffaele Amato and Cesare Pagano within the clan they led, whose authority had been called into question by Barretta not only with the slap given, for a trivial reason, to Raffaele Amato's nephew, but above all with the subsequent statements, according to which "things could change", in the sense that if the Amato-Paganos were in charge now, the future could be different".

(in the photo the place where Luigi Baretta's body was found and in the boxes starting from the left the boss Cesare Pagano, Carmine Pagano, Carmine Amato, Vincenzo Notturno, Ciro Caiazza, Lucio Carriola and Salvatore Roselli).