Castellammare – The DDA's prosecution case against the D'Alessandro clan holds up, but a procedural crack has opened that could redraw the trial's boundaries.
The Court of Review has confirmed the precautionary measures for the leaders and followers of the Scanzano gang, beheaded in the latest raid which resulted in 11 key figures being jailed, including the boss Enzo D'Alessandro.
While almost all of the suspects have given up on appealing the order, the legal battle has heated up around the position of Petronilla Schettino, wife of the clan's alleged treasurer, Michele Abbruzzese, known as 'pacierello', and a relative of the D'Alessandros.
Although the woman remains in custody, the defense—represented by lawyer Francesco Romano—has accepted a key point: the inadmissibility of a significant portion of the wiretaps.
The issue is technical and concerns the timeframes established by the Cartabia Reform. According to the review judges, the registration in the register of suspects, backdated to February 2023, triggered deadlines that the Public Prosecutor had not properly extended. The result: everything intercepted after August 5, 2024, is legally "non-existent" for evidentiary purposes against Schettino.
This is quite a dramatic turn of events, considering that the Prosecutor's Office's "castle" rests precisely on the wiretaps planted in Abbruzzese's home. Among the conversations targeted by the judicial censorship—but which remain on record for other purposes—are sensitive passages regarding extortion and sums of money received from dock managers in the port of Castellammare di Stabia. In a conversation on August 9, 2025, for example, Abbruzzese discussed with his wife the collection of €2.500 from a certain "Giovanni," identified by investigators as Giovanni D'Alessandro.
The issue of the investigation deadlines doesn't end there. The defense is ready to fight in the Supreme Court to extend the inadmissibility period to an even longer period. If the Supreme Court upholds the appeal, a significant portion of the evidence collected by the State Police (SISCO) risks evaporating, complicating the Prosecutor's position, despite the references that have emerged during the investigation, which even implicate a majority-affiliated city councilor.
For now, the D'Alessandro family remains behind bars, but the investigation is entering its most insidious phase: that of the technical integrity of the audio files that revealed Scanzano's secrets.
The "Third Level" and the Shadow Over Stabiese Politics
The investigation not only affects the military and economic wing of the D'Alessandro clan, but raises serious questions about the Scanzano gang's ability to infiltrate local institutions.
The crux of this investigation is the wiretaps recorded at Abbruzzese's home. According to the documents and findings of the DDA:
The connection with the City Council: In conversations between treasurer Michele Abbruzzese and his wife Petronilla Schettino, direct references to a majority city councilor emerge. The exchanges suggest a relationship of "closeness" or shared interests, particularly in the run-up to elections or administrative decisions.
Interest in contracts: The clan's interests were detected by the wiretaps regarding major public works, such as the new hospital (a deal worth approximately €200 million) and the management of city services. In this context, the aforementioned councilor (identified in the news as Gennaro Oscurato, later ousted from the majority by Mayor Vicinanza) would have represented, according to the investigation, a point of contact between the corridors of power and Scanzano's interests.
The risk of “unusability”
Precisely because these conversations are the "smoking gun" of the politics-Camorra connection, the removal of the files recorded after August 2024 (obtained by Schettino's defense) poses a huge problem for the Prosecutor's Office. If the key evidence against the white-collar criminals fails due to a procedural flaw (failure to extend the investigation), the entire political strand of the investigation risks crumbling before it even reaches court.
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