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Naples, woman killed her husband with 189 stab wounds: trial scheduled
The case of Ciro Rapuano's murder in Forcella is a dark web of alleged domestic abuse, severe economic tensions, and profound emotional rifts, culminating in the crime of September 4, 2025. The trial for the Forcella crime will begin on September 10 at the Naples Assize Court. In the dock...
Naples News
A bullet struck a B&B window in Forcella. A tourist miraculously survived.
Naples - There's no peace in the historic heart of Naples. A new trail of lead is rocking the San Lorenzo neighborhood, an already tense area stretching from the Tribunali to Piazza Garibaldi. The latest disturbing incident occurred in the dead of night...
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Naples, Salvatore Giuliano: "Lies? My father should show the evidence; I never lied."
Naples – The internal rift within one of the families that have shaped Naples' criminal history is now being played out in the press and official press releases. Salvatore Giuliano, son of former Forcella boss Luigi Giuliano (now a cooperating witness), responded quickly.
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Naples, Luigi Giuliano breaks his silence: "My son Salvatore tells nothing but lies."
Naples – It wasn't the attacks of rival clans, nor the judicial investigations that had hounded him for decades, that wounded the former king of Forcella. Luigi Giuliano, 76, the former undisputed boss of the Neapolitan Camorra and a collaborator with justice for over twenty years, was brought to his knees today by the words...
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Naples: Giuseppe "Pino" Buonerba, the boss of the Forcella "Capelloni" gang, is back in prison.
Naples - Giuseppe "Pino" Buonerba, a member of the "Capelloni" family of Forcella, whose headquarters were on Via Oronzo Costa, the infamous "road of death" during the feud with the Sibillo family's Paranza dei Bambini, was free for a year and a few days. The boss (defended by lawyer Fabrizio de...
Naples News
Camorra boss of Buonerba clan arrested in Forcella
State Police raided the heart of Naples between midnight and dawn, arresting a top figure in the city's organized crime syndicate. An accomplice under investigation has been placed under house arrest. The operation, coordinated by the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office, represents the culmination of investigations conducted by...
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Naples: The area in front of the Ruota degli Esposti has been cleared of rubbish.
Naples - In the Forcella neighborhood, in the heart of Naples' historic center, the area in front of the Ruota degli Esposti, a historic symbol of the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, has finally been cleared of piles of garbage. The news was announced by the city administration, which outlined the details of the extraordinary cleanup project. The...
Naples News
Forcella, 43-year-old man escapes house arrest: State Police arrest him.
He escaped from house arrest and was intercepted during a routine check. It happened yesterday afternoon in the Forcella neighborhood, where State Police arrested a 43-year-old Neapolitan man on charges of evasion. The man was spotted by officers from the Vicaria-Mercato Police Station while they were driving along Via dei Forcella...
Naples News
Forcella's senior scam hub discovered: Genny the Carogna's son is there too.
Naples - A raid that could represent only the first step in a broader investigation into an alleged senior citizen scam ring based in Forcella. For now, however, only one incident has been reported, and for this reason, no charges have been filed against five men...
Naples News
The Armed Truce of Sanità: The Story of the Repentant Giuliano and the Mediation That Averted War with Cavone
Naples - In his lengthy account to the magistrates of the Naples Anti-Mafia Directorate, Salvatore Giuliano, known as 'O Russo—a justice collaborator and former liaison between various Camorra groups—first reconstructs the internal structure of the clan operating in the Sanità district, traceable to the Savarese-Sequino alliance. His statements are contained...
Chronicle Black
Scams targeting the elderly: All the tricks of the Forcella gang led by the boss's nephew.
From the voice replicated by artificial intelligence to the firm and confident voice of the mysterious "Marshal Ferraiuolo": these were some of the tricks used by the Forcella "paranza" specializing in scams targeting the elderly, dismantled yesterday by the Flying Squads of Padua and Naples with the execution of 11 precautionary measures. The...
Naples News
Cristiano Giuliano, leader of the gang that defrauded the elderly in Northern Italy, was in Naples.
The Padua Flying Squad's investigation began in 2024 following a series of extortion and fraud schemes targeting elderly people in the city and surrounding municipalities, culminating in the execution of 11 personal precautionary measures against individuals residing in Naples and its province. Overall, between 2024...
Naples News
In Forcella, the mastermind behind the scams targeting the elderly was using artificial intelligence to reproduce their voices.
Naples - The Camorra's long shadow continues to loom behind yet another scheme of fraud and extortion targeting the elderly, which, in 2025, is harassing prosecutors' offices and Mobile Squads across Italy. The latest operation comes from Padua, where the Mobile Squad has executed 11 precautionary measures—two arrests...
Actuality
The Forcella Camorra is behind the scheme to scam the elderly: 11 precautionary measures in Veneto and Campania.
Padua – A criminal organization rooted in the Veneto and Campania regions, linked to the Camorra clan in the Forcella district of Naples, was dismantled yesterday morning thanks to a large-scale operation by the State Police. Eleven precautionary measures were issued by the Padua investigating judge and executed by officers of the Squadra...
Judicial Chronicle
Camorra, Lady Sibillo remains free: the Court rejects the revocation
The Collegiate Court of Naples (First Criminal Section) rejected the Prosecutor's Office's request to revoke the suspended sentence of Anna Ingenito, born in 1971, requesting its execution based on two final convictions for crimes in 2017, one of which was aggravated by mafia-related practices. The judges upheld...
Naples News
"Radio On the Road" is born in Forcella: the street voice of Naples' youth.
Naples – From the outskirts to the historic heart of Naples, the language of radio is once again a tool for community and redemption. On Monday, November 10, at Parco San Laise (formerly the Bagnoli NATO base), the first day of the "On the Road Next Generation" project, promoted by the parish of...
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Naples: Man steals cash register and attempts escape; 45-year-old arrested
Naples – A swift robbery in the heart of the city, amidst the bustling alleys and shops surviving the nightlife and the economic crisis. A robbery like many others, but foiled thanks to the prompt intervention of the State Police and the courage of the business owner. It ended with an arrest in flagrante delicto...
Judicial Chronicle
Naples: Final sentences for the last fringe of the "Paranza dei bambini" gang.
Naples - A new chapter in the long judicial saga of the "Paranza dei Bambini" criminal group, the clan of young Camorristi who in recent years ravaged Naples' historic center, writing one of the darkest chapters of the new-generation Camorra. The Fifth Criminal Section...
Judicial Chronicle
Camorra: Forcella's super-clan served nearly three centuries in prison.
Naples - A major blow to the super-clan formed by the alliance between the Giulianos and the Mazzarellas, who had decided to conquer the alleys of Naples' historic center through extortion, drugs, and violence. The first-degree trial, held with a summary procedure and concluded yesterday afternoon, was...
Naples News
Ciro Rapuano's murder: a video nails Lucia Salemme
Naples - "Bastard, you're finally dead." These are the alleged words of Lucia Salemme, the woman who stabbed her husband, Ciro Rapuano, 107 times. The Rapuanos' daughter, who was at home with her parents on the night of the murder, spoke to the cameras of La Vita in diretta.
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Manuela Rapuano on TV: "My mother said if you don't leave, I'll kill you too."
Naples - "My mother threatened me and told me if you don't leave, I'll kill you too." This is the shocking confession of Manuele Rapuano, the youngest daughter of Ciro, the owner of a garage in the center of Naples who was killed on the night of September 4th by his wife, Lucia Salemme...
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Naples: Anger and emotion at Ciro Rapuano's funeral
Naples — Anger, grief, and prolonged applause accompanied the exit of the coffin of Ciro Rapuano, the 59-year-old stabbed to death on September 4th in the heart of Forcella, Naples. The funeral was held in the historic church of Pietà dei Turchini, on Via Medina, where family, friends, and...
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Naples: Funeral of Ciro Rapuano, murdered by his wife, on Monday.
Naples - The funeral date has been set for Ciro Rapuano, the 59-year-old garage owner in central Naples, killed with over 100 stab wounds by his self-confessed wife, Lucia Salemme, on the night of September 4th in their marital home on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano a Forcella. The final farewell to...
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Naples, the Forcella mystery: Ciro Rapuano stabbed to death with over 100 wounds.
Naples – More than a murder, a massacre. This is how the death of Ciro Rapuano, 59, appears to have occurred during the night between September 3rd and 4th in his home on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano, in the heart of Forcella. According to the confession he made immediately after his arrest, his wife was the one who killed him...
Judicial Chronicle
Rapuano Murder: Here Are the Experts: Autopsy Tomorrow
Naples - An autopsy will be performed tomorrow on the body of Ciro Rapuano, the 59-year-old garage owner from Forcella, stabbed over 50 times on the night of September 4th by his confessed wife, Lucia Salemme. The autopsy will determine the number of stab wounds inflicted, those believed to be fatal, and may also determine...
Naples News
Rapuano murder: The daughter becomes an injured party. The victim's autopsy will be performed today.
Naples – The first breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of Ciro Rapuano, the 59-year-old night watchman from Forcella, killed on the night of September 4th by his wife, Lucia Salemme, who confessed to stabbing him over fifty times inside their home on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano. Yesterday,...
Naples News
Forcella Murder: A Twist Is Coming
Naples – This dramatic turn of events could overturn the investigation into the murder of Ciro Rapuano, 59, killed on the night of September 4th with a barrage of stab wounds—nearly sixty, according to initial reports—in his home on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano, in the heart of...
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Forcella Murder: Many Doubts Regarding Lucia Salemme's Version
Forcella murder: the questions posed by victim Ciro Rapuano's sister and those of investigators regarding what happened three nights ago in the apartment on Via Sant'Arcangleo in Baiano are certainly not the same, but the version provided by Lucia Salemme, the confessed murderer's wife, still has some murky sides. Certainly, it will be necessary...
Naples News
Forcella Murder: Lucia Salemme to the investigating judge: "I had been the victim of violence for some time, and I defended myself."
Lucia Salemme, 58, remains in prison. The woman who stabbed her husband, Ciro Rapuano, 3, to death on the night of September 4rd and 59th, in their home on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano, in the heart of Forcella. The preliminary investigations judge of the Court of Naples,...
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Forcella Murder: Over 50 Stab Wounds: Victim's Sister Shares Concerns
Naples - A doubt becomes an insinuation, a rumor breaks the silence. The investigation into the murder of Ciro Rapuano, the 59-year-old man from Forcella killed two nights ago with dozens of stab wounds, has received a public statement from the victim's sister. Rosaria Rapuano, in a social media post released yesterday, expressed...
Naples News
Forcella, Lucia Salemme's shocking story: "I saw the knife under the pillow and I stabbed him."
Naples - Perhaps she didn't realize the gravity of her act, or rather, her actions. But Lucia Salemme, who confessed to the murder of her husband Ciro Rapuano, stabbed him repeatedly, many in the back. Hers was an unexpected reaction. A murderous fury, perhaps liberating from years of abuse...
Naples News
Forcella, Lucia Salemme arrested; the neighborhood defends her: "She's a good woman."
Naples – Lucia Salemme, 58, the woman who killed her husband, Ciro Rapuano, 59, last night at their home on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano, in the heart of Forcella, was arrested after being discharged from the hospital. According to investigators, the argument between the two escalated into...
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Naples, Lucia Salemme's confession after her husband's murder: "I did it to defend myself."
Naples – "I did it to defend myself." With these words, Lucia Salemme, 58, explained to investigators the reasons that drove her to stab her husband, Ciro Rapuano, 59, to death. He was killed in the family home on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano, where the couple lived. A dramatic event that...
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Tragedy in Forcella, Naples: Woman kills husband during argument
Naples – Another tragedy unfolds within the confines of a home, but this time the victim is a man. Last night, on Via Sant'Arcangelo in Baiano, in the heart of Forcella, a 45-year-old man was killed by his wife during a violent argument. The woman, who was also injured, was...
Books
Forcella, Marco Zurzolo's new Giallo-Jazz novel: a Neapolitan adventure between music and mystery.
Naples - A journey into the beating heart of Naples, through the alleys of Forcella, where the rhythm of jazz intertwines with the thrill of a thriller: this is "Forcella," the new story by Marco Zurzolo, arriving in Italian bookstores on September 19, 2025. Published by Colonnese, the book is...
Naples News
Algerian drug dealer caught on the street in Forcella, Naples
Naples – Naples Police Headquarters continues extraordinary checks to combat drug trafficking and the circulation of weapons in the city's most sensitive areas. Yesterday afternoon, in the heart of the Vicaria neighborhood, State Police arrested a 57-year-old man of Algerian origin, an illegal immigrant...
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Luigi Giuliano, the return to Forcella of the "king" who changed the Camorra
Luigi Giuliano, known as 'o re 'e Forcella, has returned to the heart of his neighborhood after more than twenty years. He has completed the protection program for collaborators of justice and, by order of the judicial authorities, will live under probation. Officers from the Vicaria-Mercato police station will keep him under close surveillance. He is...
Naples News
Camorra, the murder of Vincenzo Di Pede and the rift between the Mazzarellas and the Formicolas
Naples - The sentences and arrests don't appear to have affected the Mazzarella clan's ability to reorganize, undoubtedly the most powerful and largest in the city center. A careful reading of the more than 1,000-page precautionary order, signed last month by investigating judge Gianluigi Visco, in which...
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Naples, major food operation in Forcella: 45 kilos of untraceable food seized
In a city like Naples, where cultural identity is intertwined with gastronomic identity, ensuring the quality and safety of the products served to residents and countless tourists is more than a necessity: it's a priority. This is demonstrated by the joint raid conducted in the past few hours in the heart of the historic center...
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Naples, Vincenzo Del Grosso's funeral: Forcella in tears, his daughter ill.
Naples – A mournful silence enveloped the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Forcella as Vincenzo Del Grosso, 53, one of the three victims of the tragic workplace accident on Via San Giacomo dei Capri, paid his last respects. The coffin, accompanied by a sympathetic crowd,...
