I think it was internal, the bikers wouldn´t go after him without the blessing of the Calabrian bosses. Pasquale faced 20 years in prison. According to some rumors, this sword of Damocles would have convinced Barbaro to break the code of silence with the police, the reason for the crime, as well as in the control of the drug market, should perhaps also be sought in the fact that the young man had become an informer.