Judicial Chronicle

A new precautionary order was executed yesterday morning against 14 individuals linked to the Contini clan, already involved in the internal feud between the criminal groups of the “Stadera” (Poggioreale) and the “Cittadella” (Casoria). The arrests were ordered by the Court of Review of Naples at the request of the District Directorate...

Buenos Aires – The trial on the death of Diego Armando Maradona has been annulled. The announcement was made by the Court of San Isidro, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, which decided to suspend the legal proceedings following the scandal linked to the production of an unauthorized documentary that...

Naples – The hearing to validate the arrest for aggravated homicide and concealment of a corpse against Alessio Tucci, the 19-year-old who confessed to killing his ex-girlfriend Martina Carbonaro, will be held tomorrow in the Poggioreale prison in Naples. The tragic death of the 14-year-old from Afragola has shaken the community and rekindled...

Naples– Nine months after the tragic death of Chiara Jaconis, the 30-year-old from Padua who died in Naples after being hit on the head by a fragment of a statue, the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office of Naples has closed the investigation, revealing crucial details about the incident. The person who threw the statuette from the balcony was apparently a...

Naples – Fifteen people ended up in prison this morning, May 29, 2025, as part of a major operation by the State Police coordinated by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate. The arrests were carried out in execution of a precautionary custody order issued by the Review Court, which accepted the...

The investigation conducted by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Castello di Cisterna revealed the existence of two distinct but interconnected criminal associations, both operating under the aegis of the powerful Mazzarella clan. The operations focused on drug trafficking and extortion, leading to the identification of 28 people under investigation. The investigation has...

The trial against the Fontana family, known in local news as the "Fasano" dell'acqua della Madonna, opened yesterday in front of the D panel of the Torre Annunziata Court. The family is accused, on various counts, of extortion against an entrepreneur from Castellammare di Stabia, owner of a business of...

Naples – After a judicial process that lasted years, marked by cancellations and postponements, the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Naples (Section II, president Silvana Gentile) has fully acquitted Antonio Tesone, accused of the murder of Aldo Autuori, which occurred in August 2015 in Pontecagnano (Salerno). The crime, committed in front of a...

Naples – A system of illicit exchanges between public contracts and electoral support, with the Casalesi clan acting as director. This is what emerges from the investigation of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA) of Naples, which sees 34 suspects – including politicians, administrators, public officials and entrepreneurs – accused of having influenced...

Capua– A Moldovan caregiver was arrested by the Carabinieri on charges of manslaughter for the death of a 70-year-old non-self-sufficient woman from Pastorano, who died on May 21 in her home where the woman worked as a family assistant. The order was issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria...

Naples – The Camorra is consolidating its power by exploiting the fragilities of the Campania economic system, the slowdown in production and the high unemployment rate. This is what emerges from the 2024 Report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (DIA), which paints a picture of an increasingly dynamic criminal organization capable of adapting, transforming itself...

Naples – A 67-year-old accountant resident in Sant'Antimo, already definitively convicted of external association with a mafia organization, has once again ended up in the sights of the Guardia di Finanza. The military personnel of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Naples have executed a provision of the Court of Appeal of Naples -...

Naples – A significant ruling was issued by the Fourth Criminal Section of the Court of Appeal of Naples, presided over by Judge Vargas, who overturned the first and second degree convictions for Luigi Puca and Giuseppe D'Aponte. In a judicial reversal, Puca, son of the boss of Sant'Antimo, Pasquale Puca, known as...

Naples – A well-organized criminal system to steal European funds intended for agriculture has been dismantled by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Naples, in collaboration with the Office of the European Delegated Prosecutors. A maxi preventive seizure of 1,137 million euros was carried out, ordered by the GIP of the Court of Salerno at the request of...

Precautionary measures confirmed and house arrest ordered for the well-known tiktoker Michele Napolitano, who was stopped armed with a loaded revolver on the night of Napoli's championship celebrations. He had been stopped by the Carabinieri in Via Acton in Naples at the end of a chase that began when, riding a...

Naples – The trial for the Ercolano massacre, the tragedy that occurred last April in which four young workers lost their lives in an explosion inside an illegal factory, will open on July 3, 2025 before the Court of Assizes of Naples, third section. The Judge for Preliminary Investigations has...

Castellammare – The Carabinieri of the Operative and Radiomobile Nucleus and the Castellammare di Stabia Station have arrested a 30-year-old local man, considered seriously suspected of having committed an armed robbery against a commercial establishment in the city. The arrest occurred in execution of a custody order...

Naples – The Naples North Prosecutor's Office has closed preliminary investigations for 44 people, some of whom are accused of being part of a criminal association dedicated to committing fraud through false RCA insurance policies. The charges concern approximately 62 episodes of fraud against citizens residing in...

Naples – An alleged criminal system aimed at influencing the awarding of public contracts between Campania and Sicily is at the center of an investigation by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate. Thirty-four people are under investigation, in various capacities, for crimes ranging from mafia-type criminal association to corruption, including disturbance...

Interlocutory phase in the maxi-trial for the alleged violence in the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, which occurred during an extraordinary search on April 6, 2020. There are 105 defendants, including prison officers, managers of the Department of Penitentiary Administration (Dap) and doctors from the Caserta ASL. The prosecution's witnesses have almost completely run out -...