Caserta and Province

Campania

Land of Fires: Integrated Video Surveillance for 56 Municipalities

5 December 2025 - 14:50

Naples - A real turning point in the fight against the eco-monsters of the Land of Fires. The Prefect of Naples, Michele Di Bari, decisively accelerated the prevention plan against illegal dumping and toxic fires, bringing together, on the afternoon of December 4th, the mayors of the 56 municipalities in the metropolitan area...

Judicial Chronicle

Prison violence trial: 18 cases dismissed, including a suicidal officer.

5 December 2025 - 09:13

Naples - On June 25, in the parking lot of the Secondigliano prison in Naples, a gunshot shattered the silence. The person pulling the trigger was Benito Pacca, 59, a prison police officer on the verge of retirement. An extreme, sudden act that left colleagues...

Caserta Chronicle

Caserta, massive €39 million facade bonus scam: seizures and 28 suspects

4 December 2025 - 15:41

A colossal scam constructed on false fronts and tax credits inflated to the tune of €39 million. This is what the Caserta Provincial Finance Police reconstructed, having executed an emergency precautionary seizure ordered by the Santa Maria Capua prosecutor's office...

Caserta Chronicle

The Barcelona drama: Rocco Amato returns home: farewell to Francolise on Saturday

4 December 2025 - 11:05

Francolise – It's a time of grief, but also of questions that still have no definitive answers. Rocco Amato, the 32-year-old from Sant'Andrea del Pizzone (a hamlet of Francolise) who tragically passed away in Barcelona on November 22nd, is returning home. His body is scheduled to land tomorrow evening at the airport...

Caserta Chronicle

Jabil-Tma, USB executive fired: "Anti-union repression, we were defending workers."

3 December 2025 - 15:10

Marcianise - The feared crackdown at the former Jabil plant materialized Tuesday evening with the dismissal of Michele Madonna, regional director of the Unione Sindacale di Base (UBB). This measure, which the USB denounces as "extremely serious and unacceptable," is the latest chapter in an intimidation strategy that began months ago with a barrage of protests...

Caserta Chronicle

Betting shops near schools: the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) reined in the police and ordered new measurements.

3 December 2025 - 14:50

Caserta – The fate of two betting shops in Teverola, which the Police Headquarters wanted to close because they were too close to the Ludwig van Beethoven Secondary School, is once again in doubt. The Campania Regional Administrative Court (TAR), with a precautionary ruling, has blocked the revocation of the licenses ordered by the Police Chief and ordered a further investigation:...

Caserta Chronicle

Aversa hosts a cyberbullying meeting for students at the Pascoli High School.

3 December 2025 - 13:06

On Friday, December 5th, starting at 12:00 p.m., the Aula Teatro of the Pascoli Comprehensive School in Aversa will host an informational meeting for third-year middle school students on the topic of cyberbullying. The initiative, promoted by Headmistress Professor Filomena Simonelli and organized with the support of Professor Agostino Ferrara,...

Judicial Chronicle

Camorra entrepreneur Nicola Inquieto has repented: he was Zagaria's cashier.

3 December 2025 - 06:44

Caserta - Businessman Nicola Inquieto, identified for years by investigators as one of the main financial intermediaries of mafia boss Michele Zagaria, has decided to cooperate with justice. The first reports have already been filed in the appeals trial into the alleged infiltration of the Casalesi clan into the Jambo shopping center in Trentola...

Caserta Chronicle

Chaos erupts at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison violence trial.

2 December 2025 - 16:18

Santa Maria Capua Vetere – The major trial into the brutal abuses inflicted on inmates at the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison on April 6, 2020, is once again in chaos. The hearing, rescheduled for yesterday, was immediately postponed, while the defendants' defense attorneys' protests against the substitution of...

Caserta Chronicle

Land of Fires: A major operation at dawn: seizures and charges filed in four municipalities in the Caserta area.

1 December 2025 - 18:51

At dawn, in the heart of the Land of Fires, a new operation was launched by the Carabinieri of the Mondragone Territorial Unit. In just a few hours, the officers traversed a crucial quadrant of the Caserta province—Mondragone, Carinola, Francolise, and Castel Volturno—scouring agricultural land, artisanal businesses, and areas...

Caserta Chronicle

Caserta: An illegal body shop reported for illegal waste disposal.

1 December 2025 - 17:36

An unauthorized workshop transformed into an illegal hazardous waste dump. This is what the Caserta State Police discovered during their extraordinary "Terra dei fuochi" operation, aimed at protecting health and combating environmental crimes related to illegal waste disposal. Officers from the Casal di Principe police station, during...

Caserta Chronicle

Carabinieri in the Land of Fires: seizures and four reports for environmental crimes

29 November 2025 - 18:30

The fight against environmental crimes in the Land of Fires continues unabated. In recent days, the Carabinieri, coordinated by the Caserta Provincial Command, have intensified inspections in an area that has been battling illegal dumping, illegal activities, and the accumulation of hazardous waste for years. The inspections, carried out by the Companies...

Caserta Chronicle

Caserta's nightlife scene: widespread checks, sanctions and a suspension.

29 November 2025 - 18:15

Caserta's nightlife scene is once again under the scrutiny of the Carabinieri. On the evening of November 28, 2025, two venues on Via Ferrante were subjected to a joint inspection by the Labor Inspectorate, the Anti-Adulteration and Health Unit, and officers from the local station. A targeted operation,...

Caserta Chronicle

Caserta, yet another scam on an elderly woman avoided: reported

29 November 2025 - 15:31

Ruviano - A routinely peaceful morning turned into a waking nightmare for an 83-year-old woman from Ruviano, in the Caserta province, who found herself the target of a telephone scam using fear as the main weapon. A well-conceived, almost theatrical plan was...

Caserta Chronicle

Road accident in Villa Literno: hit-and-run driver flees abroad, arrested upon returning to Italy

29 November 2025 - 10:41

Villa Literno – He had sown death and suffering along State Road 7/quater, then vanished without providing assistance and attempted to evade justice by fleeing abroad with his wife and children. But the circle has closed around the hit-and-run driver who caused a...

Actuality

Rocco Amato's death in Barcelona has seen a breakthrough in the investigation: investigators are increasingly considering the possibility of an accident.

29 November 2025 - 10:05

The death of Rocco Amato, 28, originally from the hamlet of Sant'Andrea del Pizzone, in the municipality of Carinola, in the province of Caserta, remains shrouded in mystery, but a lead is increasingly emerging. The young man was found dead in a service parking lot near...

Caserta Chronicle

Capodrise: Crack drug trafficking ring dismantled; two arrests

28 November 2025 - 16:17

Capodrise – They had no escape. Their criminal activity, conducted with an almost "entrepreneurial" approach from an apartment in Capodrise, was thwarted by the joint action of the Carabinieri. Those arrested, by order of the judicial authorities, were a 22-year-old homeless Albanian man and a 19-year-old Neapolitan man, caught...

Caserta Chronicle

Fatal accident in Villa Literno: 31-year-old arrested while returning from abroad

28 November 2025 - 15:44

A thirty-one-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of crime by the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office on charges of causing a serious traffic accident and then fleeing abroad with his family. The arrest warrant was executed on November 24, 2025, upon his return to Italy...

Caserta Chronicle

Maddaloni, ex-wife subjected to violence and threats: 40-year-old man placed under house arrest with an electronic tag

28 November 2025 - 15:17

Carabinieri from the Maddaloni Company executed a precautionary house arrest order with an electronic bracelet against a 40-year-old man, resident of Maddaloni. The order was issued by the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office and...

Caserta Chronicle

Caserta, 114 computers stolen from the Alife school: Carabinieri recovered them in Naples within 48 hours.

27 November 2025 - 18:59

Alife – It took the Carabinieri of the Piedimonte Matese Company a short time to return the essential digital learning tools stolen from the Alife Industrial Technical Institute to the classroom. This morning, students were able to reunite with the 114 computers stolen during the night of November 24th, when unknown assailants broke in...

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