The clan leaders risk trial for one of the most brutal Camorra murders. The prosecutors of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate have put forward the request for the Bellizzesi to be sent to trial Pasquale Renna, 63 years old, godfather of the cartel of the same name, Francesco, 69, e Alfonso Pecoraro, 62, brothers of the killed leader, for the Olevano justice collaborator Faithful Schipani, 63, called Rosario ‘u pastry chef, and the people of Stabia Ferdinando Cesarano, 69, known as Nanduccio ‘e Ponte Persica, boss of the clan that bears his name, and Maurizio Procida, 59, detained for other crimes. Now the final word is up to Giandomenico D’Agostino, investigating judge of the Court of Salerno, who will have to decide whether or not to allow the prosecutors of the DDA to carry out criminal proceedings Maria Benincasa e Bianca Rinaldi.
In the middle there is the brutal white lupara against the Bellizzese Giuseppe Di Giorgio, killed at 50, punished for having participated in the murder of the boss Giovanni Pecoraro. A cruel revenge, the one dating back to ’91. Kidnapped, tortured, thrown into a pit, tied around the neck with a rope pulled in turn, hit on the head with a pickaxe and then buried: Di Giorgio would have died like this. The public prosecution accuses the six of complicity in premeditated murder, aggravated by torture, cruelty and the fact that more than five people committed the crime. The eternal cold case was resolved on the initiative of the Carabinieri of the Norm Operational Section (led by the captains Graziano Maddalena before and Donato Recchia then) of the Battipaglia Company, under the orders of the captain Samuele Ticket.
Di Giorgio had been convicted together with Pasquale De Feo, Giulio Del Mastro e Antonio Nastro for the murder of Giovanni Pecoraro, the godfather of the clan killed in the heart of his Bellizzi in September 1988. Thus we arrived at 11 January 1991. The judges had given the victim permission to leave the house for work: he was the factory worker in Battipaglia. On leaving there he was kidnapped and taken to an abandoned farmhouse in Olevano sul Tusciano, near the hydroelectric power plant.
Benincasa and Rinaldi identify Renna, the Pecoraro brothers and Cesarano as “determiners and instigators”. Alfonso Pecoraro is “organizer and material executor”: the latter attribution was also attributed to Schipani and Procida. The three, «after having taken Di Giorgio to a farmhouse and after tying him to a chair, subjected him to torture, including cigarette burns on the body, slaps in the face and blows to the knees and head, also through the use of butt of a gun, until he lost consciousness.” He seemed already dead when Pecoraro, Schipani and Procida transported him “to a fund and then buried him in a hole dug the previous day”. Di Giorgio, however, was still alive. When the commando men noticed this, “they put a rope around his neck, pulling in turns, in an attempt to strangle him.” The 50-year-old from Bellizzo, however, was hard to die: for this reason Alfonso Pecoraro “hit him repeatedly on the head with a pickaxe, and then buried the body, together with Schipani, in the hole”. The investigations make use of the collaboration of Schipani, assisted by the criminal lawyer Andrea Ruggiero. The lawyers in the defense team Giuseppe Russo, Raffaele Francese, Eliana Zecca e Piera Rubano. The offended people are Di Giorgio’s widow, his children and his two sisters.
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– 2024-10-05 13:08:30
