Naples – A disturbing red thread of blood and bullets seems to connect the brutal murders of the very young Emanuel Tufano, murdered on the night of October 24th along the busy Rettifilo, and of Emanuel During, killed on March 15 in via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, not far from the National Museum.
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A chilling connection emerges from the intricate folds of the investigations conducted by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA) of Naples and the Juvenile Court: the two Emanueles were together that tragic October night.
A relative of Tufano among the instigators of Durante's murder
And it is precisely this shared presence at the scene of the first crime that seems to be the key to understanding the subsequent deadly ambush in March. According to a shocking investigative twist, one of the alleged instigators of the murder of twenty-year-old Emanuele Durante is said to be a relative of Emanuele Tufano.
The motive? An alleged failure to provide assistance and an escape deemed unacceptable on the night of the sixteen-year-old's murder. This would have been Durante's alleged "original sin", a shadow that would have followed him until that fateful March 15th.
A shadow that, according to investigators, would have pushed the criminal circles of the Sanità district to plan and execute a sensational murder, in broad daylight, on via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, while Durante was driving his car, with his girlfriend sitting next to him.
The joint operation of police e police led to the execution of as many as 16 arrests, in an attempt to shed full light on this dramatic sequence of events.
The intense investigations by public prosecutors Celeste Carrano, Maria Sepe and Raffaele Tufano, coordinated by deputy prosecutor Sergio Amato, have reconstructed the presence of Emanuele Durante next to sixteen-year-old Emanuele Tufano on the night of the "stesa" that ended in tragedy.
Emanuele Tufano killed by friendly fire
During, twenty years, he was also the cousin of Annalisa Durante, the young innocent victim killed by mistake more than twenty years ago in via Vicaria Vecchia in Forcella, another wound still open in the heart of Naples.
And it is precisely this family bond and his alleged reticence to tell "the whole truth" about what happened to Rettifilo which, according to investigators, would have unleashed the fury of some elements of the Health District against Durante. An exemplary punishment carried out months later, in a context of tensions and criminal dynamics that characterize some areas of the Neapolitan capital.
To shed light on this spiral of violence, it is necessary to retrace the events of that October night. It was last October 24, when a group of at least eight very young people, coming from the Sanità district, had gone to Piazza Mercato for a sort of “round” between the adjacent alleys to Carmine.
There they had met another group of at least four boys from the Mercato district. A violent confrontation had ensued firefight, with some young people throwing themselves to the ground to take cover among the parked cars. At the end of the shooting, the sixteen-year-old Emanuel Tufano he had the worst of it, being killed.
But the results of the first investigations revealed an even more disconcerting detail: the young man from the Sanità district was not fatally struck by his rivals from the Mercato, but by a stray bullet fired from one of the weapons of his own “stesa” companions.
Un tragic case of “friendly fire” which, far from closing the affair, seems to have triggered a spiral of revenge and retaliation culminating in the murder of Emanuel During.
The complex and delicate investigation now seeks to shed full light on all the pieces of this dramatic criminal mosaic.
Article published on May 8, 2025 - 11:15 pm
The article presents a very complex and tragic situation. The connections between the two murders are disturbing and demonstrate how violence can also affect young people. I hope that the investigations lead to a quick solution.