Salvatore Attanasio was stabbed to death in the neighborhood of Porta Nolana, he was charged with the murder of a member of the Mazzarella clan in 2011.

He was killed by 14 stab wounds.

It was February 2019 when Salvatore Attanasio was arrested by the Mobile Squad of Naples. The charge was of attempted murder. The 42-year-old is held responsible for the ambush against Vincenzo Maggio, father of the collaborator Salvatore.

The episode, known as the Halloween ambush (because it happened on October 31, 2011 and because the killer went into masked action), is remembered as the author of the raid missed the target. Three other people died and were injured.

Salvatore Attanasio was the son of Giuseppe Attanasio, killed in a Camorra attack in 1998.

Also two shootings in the Neapolitan area.

Andrea Attanasio and Marco Cozzolino, two nephews of the boss Ciro Formicola, were shot and seriously wounded in the neighborhood of Barra and Mario Dentice,a member of the Gallo clan, was shot and wounded in Torre Annunziata.


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