Astrawberry – Three seconds, three damned seconds. That was all it took for the ruthless, precise and determined killer to kill with a double sequence of fire, Pasquale Buono, known as, o' grappino, 47 years old, while he was inside his parents' haberdashery in Corso Italia, at Palazzine Gescal in Afragola.
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The ruthless execution of the Camorra, which lasts 25 seconds, was captured by one of the cameras from the public video surveillance of the municipality of Afragola. The two killers certainly knew about the presence of the cameras and arrived on a motorbike with their helmets covered by full-face helmets.
The dynamics of the ambush, the shots show the scene with raw effectiveness
As the images show, a Honda SH with two people on board stops in front of the store. The passenger, his face covered by a full-face helmet, gets off, turns his back because a customer comes out of the store with a bag in his hand. When the man is turning the corner, the killer runs toward the store already with the gun in his hand and the bullet in the chamber. He starts shooting three times. Then he stops and shoots again. The whole thing lasts three seconds.
Then he runs towards his accomplice on the motorbike and they speed away. Passers-by and other shopkeepers who were outside their shops are terrified. Then the screams of the victim's family begin. Despite the help of passers-by and the 118, there was nothing that could be done: he died instantly, hit in his vital organs.
The motive: an inconvenient testimony?
Investigators are pursuing the Camorra lead. Buono, despite having no previous convictions for mafia crimes: he was in fact accused in a trial for attempted extortion from a dairy. Considered close to the Moccia clan, in particular to Salvatore Puzio “'o Ghirù”
A repentant had indicated him as the alleged perpetrator of two murders. He was supposed to testify about an extortion and the murder of an affiliate of the “'o Gelsomino” group. The one in Afragola is the second murder in 48 hours in the northern hinterland of Naples
Two days earlier, in Cardito, he was killed Antonio Vitale, known to the police. Both ambushes were carried out by killers on motorbikes. The area is the scene of clashes between factions of the Moccia clan for control of drug dealing
The response of the institutions
Prefect Michele Di Bari has ordered increased controls in the area. The episode will be the focus of the next Provincial Committee for Order and Security.
Article published on 12 June 2025 - 21:53
