Judicial Chronicle

The investigation into the Faito cable car tragedy is in full swing. In the coming days, consultants from the Torre Annunziata Prosecutor's Office will conduct an inspection of the disaster site, where last Thursday one of the cabins fell along the route connecting Castellammare di Stabia with the top of the mountain, causing...

Castellammare - Three days after the Monte Faito cable car tragedy, which cost the lives of four people, new and crucial investigative hypotheses emerge. While the Torre Annunziata Prosecutor's Office continues its investigations relentlessly, even working on Easter Sunday, a technical element of primary importance is...

Torre Annunziata– The investigation opened by the Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor's Office into the Faito cable car disaster, which cost the lives of four people and left one seriously injured, will be highly technical. Chief Prosecutor Nunzio Fragliasso has set up an ad hoc investigative team, which he will personally lead, supported by the prosecutor...

Santa Maria Capua Vetere – The trial against Amedeo Di Maro, 50, accused of violently attacking a teacher at the “Gallozzi” school continues before the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The next hearing is scheduled for May 8, before Judge Alessandra Vona. The postponement to...

Naples – Bitter Easter for two wanted Camorra, from the egg opened early by the police came out the handcuffs. Yesterday afternoon, in fact, the Naples Flying Squad and the agents of the Frattamaggiore Police Station arrested two fugitives linked to the Pezzella clan, operating in the municipalities of Frattamaggiore...

Naples - The judicial circle is tightening around the alleged infiltration of the Contini clan into the San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples. The preliminary hearing judge Campanaro of the Neapolitan court has issued the first seven convictions at the end of the abbreviated trial resulting from the operation that, last summer, had led to...

Castellammare - Brakes, maintenance and adverse weather conditions, particularly the wind, are the first elements being examined by investigators from the Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor's Office, who are trying to shed light on the causes of the dramatic accident that occurred Thursday afternoon on the cable car that connects Castellammare di Stabia to Monte Faito. The fall of the...

The court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere has sentenced Francesco Tiberio La Torre, cousin of the Caserta Camorra boss Augusto La Torre, to 12 years in prison for attempted extortion against regional councilor Giovanni Zannini and entrepreneurs Alfredo and Pasquale Campoli. The sentence, imposed by the first section...

A mafia imposition on a school building site: it is on this charge that the Carabinieri arrested a couple, he 70, she 64, believed to be leading members of the Massaro Camorra clan, active between Maddaloni and the surrounding municipalities of Caserta. The two ended up in prison on the orders of the District Directorate...

Castellammare– A video recorded by the surveillance camera at the top station of the Faito cable car captured the last moments before the tragedy that cost the lives of four people and seriously injured another. The images, now part of the investigation, show the cabin starting to go back...

Naples – Arcangelo Trongone, the boss of Piazza Borsa known as “Angioletto”, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Second Section of the Court of Assizes of Naples for the murder of Gennaro Fittipaldi, killed with a shot to the back of the head on the morning of May 18, 2015 in via Chiavettieri al Porto, a few steps from the Federico...

Five convictions with abbreviated procedure: it is the first hard judicial blow inflicted on the so-called paranza of the Marigliano clan, accused of having spread terror in Case Nuove, in Naples, to take control of criminal business in the area. The armed group, in January 2024, had opened fire with a...

Naples – Reduced sentences for three defendants deemed by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate to be leading members of the Amato-Pagano clan, involved in an extortion affair against a businessman involved in the construction of a headquarters for a well-known supermarket chain. The Court of Appeal of Naples, first section, upheld...

NAPLES – He was the institutional linchpin of a well-oiled machine, capable of generating an illicit business volume of millions of euros: today, he was placed under house arrest. He is an official of the Labor Inspectorate of the Metropolitan Area of ​​Naples, seconded to the One-Stop Shop for Immigration of the...

Naples - Antimo Imperatore was putting up a mosquito net in the home of a criminal, when he was killed by gunshots: the worker, an innocent victim, died by mistake during a Camorra ambush in July 2022 in Naples. Today the Court of Assizes of Appeal (IV section, president Loredana Acierno) sentenced to 19...

The Naples DDA has closed the investigations for the 56 suspects including bosses and affiliates of the Amato Pagano clan involved in the maxi blitz of December 17th and is therefore preparing to request the referral to trial for all of them. Even though just yesterday the Court of Cassation accepted the appeal...

The public prosecutor of the Ivrea Public Prosecutor's Office has requested eight months of imprisonment for Augusto La Torre, a historic exponent of the Caserta Camorra, accused of aggravated defamation against the journalist Giuseppe Tallino, 35-year-old editor of "Cronache di Caserta". The trial, before the sole judge Antonella Pelliccia, reopens the case of the...

Cesa - The Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Juvenile Court of Naples has validated the arrest of the 17-year-old accused of the murder of Davide Carbisiero, 19, which occurred at dawn on April 13 in a slot machine hall in Cesa. The young man, defended by the lawyer Stefania D'Onofrio, will remain detained at the Juvenile Penal Institute...

Antonio Pignataro, a former leading figure in Campania's organized crime and a central figure in the Nuova Famiglia, the Camorra cartel that opposed Raffaele Cutolo's Nuova Camorra Organizzata in the 68s, has died at the age of 80. The former boss passed away yesterday afternoon at 13:15 p.m. in Scalea, Calabria,...

Naples – Luigi Cimmino, former leader of the Neapolitan Camorra and protagonist of one of the darkest pages of Neapolitan crime, has died at the age of 64. Hospitalized for some time for a tumor that had weakened him in recent months, the former boss passed away in a protected location where he was serving...