A lot of murders in both Rome & Naples since beginning of 2023

the victim was a friend of the neapolitan Luigi Finizio, killed two weeks ago in the same area

All of this in Rome started when Sergio "Segione" Placidi fell from fifth floor apartment in the Magliana,Rome. He was probably thrown.

Police seize arsenal, arrest one in Rome
Part of probe into drug turf war

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 30 - Police in Rome found and seized an arsenal on Thursday night containing a dozen pistols and a rifle as part of an investigation into recent murders in the capital.
One man, an Italian, was arrested.
The operation took place in Pietralata in northeast Rome.
The seizure relates to a probe into four murders in the capital in just over a month that are thought to be connected to a drug turf war.
Most recently, on Sunday night Andrea Fiore, a 54-year-old Roman with a long criminal record, was hit in the chest by two shots in his home at Torpignattara in the east of the Italian capital.
Investigators say he was a close friend of Luigi Finizio, a Roman with links to the Neapolitan Camorra mafia who was shot dead by two men on a scooter at a petrol station in the same area on March 13.
The other murders, on March 10, and February 22, concerned a Neapolitan and a Romanian. (ANSA).

Battleground Rome: mafia gangs fight for control of cocaine trade
January 18 2023, 12.00am

The killers who banged on Andrea Fiore’s front door last Sunday and shot him in the chest had picked the time and place carefully.

The cottage, squeezed between a field and a railway line on the edge of Rome, was miles from streets crowded with tourists in the centre of the city. But the death of the small-time crook grabbed headlines the moment investigators linked it to at least five murders this year. They were all triggered by a struggle to grab a slice of Rome’s cocaine market after the arrest of some of the city’s biggest crime lords.

“The police have done a great job arresting bosses but inevitably it has left a power vacuum and there’s now a war

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...t-for-control-of-cocaine-trade-k2fpflsz9

You don't hear that much about the Fasciani clan abroad, but they seem to be powerful. They came to Rome from L'Aquila, but unlike the other big Abruzzo clans Casamonica and Spada they're allegedly not of gypsy origin. The way I read it they drove the Triassi - a Sicilian family close to Cuntrera-Caruana - out of business.

I suspect Carmine Fasciani was/is backed by cosa nostra.

Luan how about not posting shit with a pay wall, it's so frustrating.

Editorial board
April 14, 2023 4:24 pm

The Alessandrino ambush to kill two brothers: Diabolik's killer sentenced to 12 years
Calderon, already tried for the murder of Fabrizio Piscitelli and Selavdi Shehaj, was convicted of the attempted murder of Emanuele and Alessio Costantino

Raul Esteban Calderon , the man accused of killing Fabrizio Piscitelli , known as 'Diabolik', has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, abbreviated for the attempted double murder of the brothers Emanuele and Alessio Costantino which took place on 13 July 2021. An attack failed occurred in the Alessandrino district.

Calderon, who is on trial not only for the crime of 'Diabolik' but also for that of Selavdi Shehaj known as 'Passerotto' , had been reached by the magistrate's order after the investigation by the district anti-mafia directorate of Rome in January 2022 together with Giuseppe Molisso , 40-year-old multiple offender.

The investigations, carried out by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Nucleus of Rome through stalking and environmental and telephone interceptions, had made it possible to reconstruct the motive ( attributable to disagreements which arose following the beating of a nephew of Molisso ), the dynamics of the crime, the ways in which the killer had been assigned, identified in Raul Esteban Calderon.

''The murder of Diabolik was the same, it was up to me! Identical '', said Emanuele Costantino, victim of the attempted double homicide with his brother, in a conversation intercepted and reported in the order with which the investigating judge had validated the arrest, issued by the DDA, of Giuseppe Molisso. The gup of Rome in sentencing Calderon to 12 years has excluded the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method. The prosecutor had asked for a 16-year sentence for the Argentine.

Rome, the shop after Diabolik. The new "system" of clans
The Piscitelli murder stabilized relations: groups do not wage war

In Villalba, a neighborhood between Rome and Guidonia, they called it the Calabrian fort: a real drug dealing square hidden in an apartment protected by cameras and surrounded by one-way streets alternating with "horses" and lookouts placed at the corners. Buyers arrived at all hours of the day, parked, buzzed and the dose was delivered to them. In half a day, this domestic square yielded no less than 2,050 euros. A great deal of money was recovered by the police officers of the Flying Squad who, after an ambush, broke in, seizing drugs, weapons, money and recovering part of the drug in the sewers because if in open-air squares the drugs are thrown into dumpsters or braziers in closed ones are flushed down the toilets.

A new reality that adds to the traditional squares that never go out of fashion but which, on the contrary, multiply. As in the case of Santa Palomba, a neighborhood in the south of Rome.They had set up two perfectly balanced drug dealing squares». "Serving" drugs to both sides was Fabiola Moretti , the former Scarlet Pimpernel of the Banda della Magliana .

February 2022: it is still the time for the "reorganization" although two and a half years have passed since that 7 August 2019 when, at the Parco degli Acquedotti, Fabrizio "Diabolik" Piscitelli, the man who more or less consciously had attempted to "climb" the system after growing up in the shadow of a boss - lucidly "crazy" - ended up like a traitor: killed from behind with a single gunshot. In a hearing before the Anti-Mafia Commission, the former chief prosecutor Michele Prestipino said: "The Piscitelli murder is a strategic murder, it was functional to the reorganization of some criminal balances not only in the city of Rome". But in the capital, the names of those in charge of the drug dealing have been chasing each other for years: native criminals - Gambacurta, Sgambati, Sterlicchio, Casamonica -, Neapolitans (Siena, Moccia, Nastasi, Licciardi) and Calabrians, from the Belloccos to the Filippones up to the Strangios.

Global: Poverty and corruption in Italy at root of crime clans’ chilling turf war
By Stephen Stewart
April 10, 2023, 12:01 am

A police officer with a gun seized during searches in Ostia – mafia territory that is also a tourist haven

Italy must rapidly ­combat ­poverty and corruption to finally defeat the mafia as the nation is rocked by a deadly turf war among rival clans, according to an organised crime expert.

Criminologist Dr Baris Cayli Messina says Italy’s deepening social problems have contributed to a flourishing of the infamous criminal group, with Rome rocked by a high-profile series of murders.

They include the killing of Andrea Fiore, shot dead at his cottage on the outskirts of Rome. Investigators linked the killing to at least other five murders this year all, reportedly, provoked by a power struggle as gangsters vied to control Rome’s cocaine market after the arrest of some of its biggest crime lords.

Messina, associate professor of criminology at Lincoln University, said that, despite police and government attempts to dismantle the mafia, the crime families were still strong. “Mafia members infiltrated Rome’s political and economic institutions to gain control of the city’s illegal economic activities,” he said.

“For every mafia boss or member arrested or killed, another one takes their place. This is a vicious circle that seems difficult to break. To address the problem, the root causes that allow the mafia to thrive must be identified and targeted. One such cause is the lack of ­economic opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas of Italy.”

Police suspect Fiore, 54, was killed to stop him revealing what he knew about the death of his friend Luigi Finizio, 51, a minor underworld figure with ties to the Senese crime clan and who was shot last month.

Led by Michele “Crazy” Senese and linked to the Naples Camorra mafia, the Senese once dominated Rome’s drug trade but has been weakened since its chief was arrested. The list of clans who carve up Rome’s cocaine market but affected by arrests is long, starting with the Casamonica mob, which drew attention in 2015 with the elaborate funeral of a clan elder at which a ­helicopter scattered petals on mourners.

In Ostia, Rome’s seaside suburb, a round-up of the Spada clan was followed in October by the arrest of Roberto De Santis, an Ostia boss with ties to the Naples and Sicilian mafias.

The violence dates back to the murder in 2019 of Fabrizio “Diabolik” Piscitelli, a major drug dealer. He tried to broker peace deals between clans but was shot on a park bench.

Messina added: “The government can weaken the mafia’s influence by addressing issues such as unemployment, poverty and a lack of education. Corruption in the Italian government and police force allows the mafia to continue its operations.”

The Sicilian and Neapolitan mafia have attracted far more headlines and notoriety over the years but Rome has long been prone to corruption. The Mafia Capitale involved the government of Rome, with members stealing money earmarked for city services and carrying out other criminal activities, such as racketeering, loan-sharking, extortion, drug trafficking, fraud and bribery.

Messina said: “The Mafia Capitale scandal in 2014 drew attention to activities in Rome. Mafia groups in Rome have exploited migrants and refugees, trafficked drugs and profited from city contracts for migration management. The group is thought to have amassed millions through drug trafficking and other illegal means, inflating the costs of services provided to migrants and pocketing the difference.”

Messina fears innocent locals and tourists could be caught in the crossfire. He said: “We can expect more violence in the coming months if the mafia groups do not reach an agreement on how to control the activities in Rome or if one of the mafia groups does not achieve a decisive victory over rival mafia.

“The most terrifying outcome of such reckless violence groups is the murder of innocent people who may be present by chance when conflict occurs between rival mafia groups.”

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/corruption-in-italy/

The boss Roberto De Santis, known as Nasca, was convicted of shooting boss Vito Triassi in the legs, which took place in 2007 in Casalpalocco.

So are the three big traditional types of OC - Mafia, Ndrangheta and Camorra - still the main suppliers?
A lot of the drug dealing groups in Rome seem to be acting on their behalf; Senese and Pagnozzi being Camorra transplants, Triassi and D'Agati being connected to the Sicilian mafia from Agrigento, Sgambati and Gambacurta getting supplied by Ndrangheta, etc...

Good question I know the group of Raffaele Imperiale supplied the Roman market with cocaine through the Netherlands.

Man who tried to run over anti-Mob priest charged
Don Antonio Coluccia, targeted by scooter man for drug campaigns

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 30 - A 28-year-old man who tried to run over an Italian anti-mafia priest in one of the suburbs of Rome Tuesday night was charged with attempted murder Wednesday.
Don Antonio Coluccia, dubbed 'father-courage', has been fighting for 25 years against mafia and drug rackets in the peripheries of Italian cities, many in the south, but not only.
The 48-year-old priest, from the Salento area of Puglia, has suffered death threats from the Mob and other drug dealers and has been living with a police escort for the last few years.
On Tuesday night in Tor Bella Monaca a 28-year-old alleged pusher, Sergio Del Prete, tried to knock over Father Coluccia and kill him, instead hitting one of the escorts with his scooter.
Police found a cleaver and a hammer in his backpack and he will also face charges of illegal weapons possession. (ANSA).

It would be a full-blown ambush that took the life of a thirty-eight-year-old Roman. His name was Daniele Di Giacomo, the man hit by some bullets while he was getting back into his car in Tor Bella Monaca, on the outskirts of Rome. He was in the company of his girlfriend, a 26-year-old girl now hospitalized at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic where she underwent surgery. A bullet had lodged in her knee, after having pierced the body of her boyfriend. The ambush in which, according to investigators, between four and six shots were fired took place around 5.30pm in Via Paolo Ferdinando Quaglia under the eyes of dozens of people who saw the execution while looking out the window. The victim died after a desperate attempt to resuscitate him by the 118 health workers. He was known to the police and the Carabinieri for his judicial past, but in recent times he had put his head in order and had become an entrepreneur in the automotive field. For a short time he had been dating the girl who was with him in the car. And according to the investigators of the flying squad of the Rome Police Headquarters, the motive should be sought precisely
in the sentimental sphere, but a transversal revenge in the criminal sphere cannot be ruled out either, because right in front of the place where Di Giacomo was killed, one of the largest drug dealing squares in
Rome is active. The night between Sunday and Monday was the scene of the beating of forty-eight-year-old Claudio Milletti, who was found dying in the middle of the street with his head smashed into a pool of blood.

The shadow of the 'Ndrangheta on Rome: drug dealing square in Quarticciolo destroyed
The raid by the Carabinieri and the DDA: a man from the 'Ndrangheta gang at the top of the criminal organization

Press Release - 13 October 2023 - 11:52Comment Press Send news 3 min

Rome – In the Quarticciolo district, in Rome, the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Roma Casilina on behalf of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome have executed orders ordering precautionary measures, issued by the Court of Rome, against 6 Italian people -4 men aged 50, 44 and 25 and 2 women aged 41 and 46-, of which 3 have been placed in pre-trial detention in prison and 3 are under house arrest. Those arrested are seriously accused, for various reasons, of " Association aimed at illicit trafficking of narcotic or psychotropic substances " and "Illicit production, trafficking and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances".

Quarticciolo, association aimed at drug dealing
The provision is the result of a detailed investigative activity, which began in 2019 and concluded in 2022 , coordinated by the DDA of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome and conducted by the Carabinieri of the Operational Unit of the Compagnia di Roma Casilina.

The investigation, also with the aid of technical activities, made it possible to collect serious circumstantial elements regarding the existence of a structured criminal association , made up of Italian people who managed the retail sale of cocaine, crack and hashish in the neighborhood Quarticciolo, where one of the main shopping squares of the capital is located . At the top of the group was a man of Calabrian origins, currently the recipient of a precautionary custody order in prison, already definitively convicted of mafia-type association, currently detained in the Parma prison, and belonging to a gang with important roles. ndrangheta member of Lamezia Terme.

The investigations documented how the criminal activity took place in various drug dealing areas, monitored 24 hours a day by lookouts and organized through a hierarchy, a clear division of roles and shifts organized between members of the association . In order to hinder the investigations, the suspects used cryptic language to refer to the doses of narcotics, called " cones " or " tickets "; when one of his associates had to carry a large load of narcotics, he said he had to go to a " party ". Finally, the use of a cellar used as a bunker was unique, from which the pusher supplied the customers; the environment, closed from the inside, was equipped with video surveillance and two colored light bulbs activated from the outside which had the function of signaling to the pusher the arrival of the police.

During the investigation, the Carabinieri of the Rome Casilina Company estimated a turnover of around 500,000 euros on an annual basis. Furthermore, to guarantee the loyalty of the members , the proceeds of the illicit activity were also used by the organization to guarantee the sustenance of the families of the suspects when the latter were detained and for the payment of legal expenses , effectively creating a "social safety net". .

The direct involvement of minors was also ascertained , one of whom was also arrested red-handed for drug dealing during the activity, under the direction of members of the criminal organization. During the investigation, in response to the evidence emerging from the technical activity, a total of 8 people were arrested.

Another 9 individuals under investigation, found to be involved in minor roles in the retail sale of drugs, will be sent to trial without the application of precautionary measures.

500,000 a year? That ain't shit.

Yeah when it comes to the drug trade an annual turnover of 500,000 is small potatoes. This was probably just a smaller local drug dealing crew.

When you put it in perspective, trailer park guys from the Aryan Brotherhood in Oklahoma alone for example were selling 2,500 kilograms of methamphetamine annually. A single gram of meth usually costs around 40 bucks so you can do the math...

Many professional drug trafficking crews make much more than half a million every year.

It says that it was one drug dealing square, the Ndrangheta clan in question could possibly control multiple squares. Who knows. It was actually a very sophisticated system from the sound of it, I can't imagine guys like that being okay with a measly 500K a year.

They probably control multiple squares, according to Saviano , in Scampia, Camorra earns around 500,000 euros a day from drug dealing squares. Scampia is largest open air drug market in Europe but still...

More on Quarticciolo.

Many Romans mistakenly consider Quarticciolo a crime-ridden, no-go zone. It’s a vital neighborhood, though many of its roughly 5,000 inhabitants feel stigmatized, isolated from the rest of the city, and ignored by public authorities. Living conditions can be grim, and school absenteeism rates are some of the highest in the capital. Drug dealing is rampant—a source of shame and fear for many residents. Police raids, when they occur, are often violent. But the district is historically famous for its resistance to the Fascist regime, a long tradition of political radicalism, and a unique urban landscape that’s helped forge a sense of community. Determined to restore dignity to their neighborhood, residents have come together to construct a future for their children, improve living conditions, and renovate public spaces.

Read article (english)

https://commonedge.org/rebuilding-and-destigmatizing-romes-quarticciolo-neighborhood/

"The Casamonicas are no longer here, let's take the Cesano square." The ambitions of the 'ndrina in Rome
From Rome to Sicily, from North to South. The ambitions and affairs of the men of the Borghetto-Latella gang

"Whoever has drugs in Rome does what he wants and the Calabrians always have drugs", a sentence, that of a justice collaborator contained in the VI and VII report 'Mafias in Lazio', which well describes the strength of the 'ndrine in Capital and, above all, still underlines the quality of the goods they deal with. That summary, although from 2016, is still very relevant. This is illustrated by the operations which reveal the affairs of the 'Ndrangheta in Rome and which, recently, made it possible to defeat the leaders of the group in Reggio Calabria which managed the drug dealing in Rome for the Borghetto-Latella gang.

In the operation that led to the arrest of 27 people, the district anti-mafia directorate and the financial police reconstructed how the gang of Serie A drug dealers intended to take possession of a drug dealing place left vacant by the Casamonicas, because they had been arrested.

The Cesano area
The area is that of Cesano, close to the area where the Vatican Radio antennas once stood. According to the DDA, the right man to grab the Roman market would have been 53-year-old Armando Catanzariti, a true Calabrian who has now moved with his family to Trevignano Romano for years. With 'Catanza', as he calls himself, Antonio Idotta also ended up in prison in the financial blitz - among others. The 52-year-old who was instead responsible for hiding and transporting the drugs from Calabria to the province of Rome, and then dealing them in the capital.

The two men of the Borghetto-Latella gang, on the other hand, had sensed the big coup as also emerges from the interceptions: "There is no one there. There is a large pizza in Cesano, near the old Vatican Radio antennas. There are the Albanians but they have cheap stuff", said Catanzariti praising the quality of the cocaine from the 'Ndrangheta.

Cosca Capitale, this is how the 'Ndrangheta took Rome

The Roman mission
The conversation dates back to 2021. Idotta and 'Catanza' worked for a drug transport between May and June of that year. Trips which, according to those who investigated, were repeated, each containing hundreds of grams of cocaine.

The two converse continuously, so much so that Idotta proposes to Catanzariti to hide the drugs to take to Rome by car or bus, always with an eye on who would have to "take the goods" from Calabria to Rome: "I belong to the Africoti I don't trust them", Catanzariti's thoughts.

Quality matters
The objective, in any case, is clear: to take the square left "empty" after the operations of the police and force the pushers to sell their stuff, the quality stuff.

"There is none of these people here, among the Albanians and Romanians, who have good stuff. They all bring it Nino, but the one I brought here isn't there. No one who can compete. There are only things of second choice", explains Catanzariti who is focusing on Cesano: "If we manage to take the place there will be no one. The only ones are in custody, there is a guy with the Casamonicas. But the Casamonicas are all salty (arrested ed.), they are not there, there is no one left, so the square has remained with the Albanians". According to those who investigated, the objective was to build a monopoly. The leitmotif, moreover, is always the same: "Whoever has drugs in Rome does what he wants and the Calabrians always have drugs".

“We protect Rome” investigation: sentences for over 80 years for the Casamonicas. Members of the clan: "Camorra and 'Ndrangheta want to destroy us"
12/29/2023, 2.58pm

The Rome court has handed down sentences of over 80 years in prison to 8 members of the Casamonica clan, confirming the charge of mafia-style criminal association. Among the crimes contested in various capacities by prosecutor Edoardo De Santis are those of usury and extortion.

The judges of the first criminal section in particular sentenced, among others, Ferruccio Casamonica to 25 years, Gelsomina Di Silvio to 18 years and 2 months and Giuseppe Casamonica to 17 years. There were three acquittals including that of Emanuele Scaramuzzo, as also requested by the prosecutor.

"In a sentence with exemplary sentences, the result of having managed to clarify the specific position by demonstrating the extraneousness of our client to the disputed facts is even more important" say Scaramuzzo's defenders, the lawyers Salvatore and Federico Sciullo. The position of Raffaele Casamonica has been eliminated for health reasons, and he was also defended by the Sciullo criminal lawyers.

The investigation by the Rome District Anti-Mafia Directorate in 2020 led to the 'We protect Rome' operation, with around twenty arrests, bringing to light the clan's usury and extortion activities. In an interception in the documents it was said: "they have to let strong organizations enter Rome, that's why they want to destroy us! the Camorra and the Ndrangheta. It bothers him because we protect Rome."

Just a few weeks ago, the Court of Cassation also recognized 416 bis (mafia-style criminal association) against four members of the clan, already sentenced in the first and second degree with an abbreviated trial as part of the same investigation.

Cristiano Molè, 33, with criminal records for drug trafficking, was shot dead in the neighborhood of Corviale while he was driving a SUV

Wow I think he's from the most powerful Piromalli-Molè clan.

it seems the surname is just a coincidence, he's probably of calabrian origin but not a member of that clan

IDK I also read there are no direct links, Molè is a very rare name and the clan has roots in the capital.
Another article does mention links we have to wait and see.

Cristiano Molè, already known to the police, near the Calabrian gang of the same name in Gioia Tauro, allied with the Piromalli gang, also active in the capital, was hit by a bullet in the chest and died shortly after: he was getting out of a car on the passenger side but the vehicle, parked near his home, was riddled with bullets. The other person targeted was instead wounded in the leg and in the evening he would have already been interviewed by the carabinieri of the investigative unit in via In Selci who are investigating together with the Eur company. But the Anti-Mafia magistrates and the leaders of the Ros also arrived on site.





In 2014, Molè had already been shot in Bravetta. At the time the ambush took place near a street bar, in the Forte Aurelio area. A warning for a mistake, this is the motivation.

The passion for boxing
Not just crime in Molè's past. His passion for boxing was great, he had grown up with the dream of becoming a professional boxer. "I train every day, when I can," he wrote in a post with a photo with his daughter. A passion that he had shared with the boxer Mirco Ricci . In 2021 he accompanied the YouTuber Simone Cicalone, also with the same passion, to discover the Corviale.

The memory on social media
Many on social media have expressed their pain. Someone posted black hearts, others photos. "We lived close to each other, I didn't know you deeply, but you left an unbridgeable void. Only with iron. You would have devastated them. Carrions, cowards, infamous filthy vile demons. Corviale will never forget you", we read in one post. And again: "You have left a woman, wife and mother alone with fatherless children. There is a god and he will punish you. You who have acted must suffer more than a mother who loses everything."

According to what the LaPresse agency has learned, the 33-year-old belongs to the 'Ndrangheta clan of the Molè, from Gioia Tauro in Calabria , also linked to the Piromalli. LaPresse is a leading Italian multimedia news agency.

Top court restores mafia charge for Casamonicas
Armed association also recognised for some leaders

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 16 - Italy's supreme Court of Cassation on Tuesday restored the charge of mafia association in the case of Rome's Casamonica crime family and ordered a fresh appeal trial to reset their sentences, which will therefore be lengthened.
A previous appeals trial had struck down the mafia charge, leading to shorter sentences for the 30 defendants including the leaders of the notorious clan.
The supreme court also upheld another appeal from the public prosecutor's office, recognising the aggravating circumstance of armed association against some of the leaders.