Deadly ambush encore: Antonio Afendi dies by Erica Fiore March 2, 2024 Afendi murder in Casarano CASARANO – Three Kalashnikov shots fired at close range by the hitmen, who arrived in a car with tinted windows and went into action quickly, firing the powerful weapon from the window. This is how Antonio Amin Afendi, a 33-year-old who escaped another fire ambush in 2019, was shot dead this Saturday morning in the center of Casarano. It was just after 11am in the central Via Lupo when the explosion of shots, at least three it was said, alarmed residents and passers-by. For Afendi, who at that moment was on the street near a bar, there was nothing that could be done: he was shot at chest level and died instantly. The Carabinieri, the forensic team, the Prosecutor Cannarile, the Prosecutor of the DDA Cataldi and the medical examiner immediately arrived on site. The ambush aimed at Afendi for the second time and in perfect mafia style seems to leave no room for doubt: he must be included in the dynamics of the underworld and in the bloody fight for hegemony between the clans of the hinterland. In 2019, investigators defined Afendi as "the rising star of the Potenza Clan". After the death of the boss Augustino Potenza and the ambush that knocked out his right-hand man Luigi Spennato, Afendi should have led the association.
