One of the most dangerous fugitives left around is a racketeer
Renato Cinquegranella has been wanted for 20 years. He is accused of the murder of "Bambulella" whose heart was ripped out

Vincent Sbrizzi
Journalist
January 16, 2023 1:47 pm

After Matteo Messina Denaro's arrest, four fugitives remain, considered by the Ministry of the Interior to be extremely dangerous. One of these is a member of the Camorra and his criminal "curriculum" earned him "by right" inclusion in this list. We are talking about Renato Cinquegranella, a camorrist believed to be a member of what was once the New Family, the cartel of clans opposed to Raffaele Cutolo's New organized Camorra between the 1970s and 1980s. Cinquegranella has been on the run since 6 October 2002 for crimes of mafia association, complicity in murder, illegal carrying of weapons and other crimes. Born in 1949, the name of Cinquegranella is linked to two episodes of enormous gravity that have marked the history of the Camorra and of our country.

The first is the murder of Giacomo Frattini in which he became a participant. "Bambulella", as the member of the Nco di Cutolo was called, was brutally tortured and murdered to avenge a murder that took place inside the Poggioreale prison. Frattini's body was found inside a sheet. He had been beheaded, his face disfigured and his hands had been cut off and his heart removed. Another "case" in which the name of Cinquegranella appears concerns the murder of the head of the flying squad, Antonio Ammaturo and his driver Pasquale Paola. The boss is accused of having given hospitality to the wounded members of the commando of the Red Brigades who took the life of the policeman. He welcomed them into his villa in Castel Volturno allowing them to escape, at first, after the firefight with the "falcons".