“The boy was saved”

No they delayed when they were in the presence of the child. They did not stop their crime plan. They took aim and fired, aiming for the silhouette of the larger one. They shoot at the big target, miraculously leaving the smaller one alive: a lone child 11 years.

Murder in Naples, ambush in Settimo vicolo Duchesca, we are behind the statue in Piazza Garibaldi, a few hundred meters from the railway. Luigi is killed Procopius45 years old, and his son who was next to him is still unharmed. The eleven-year-old boy is out of danger. When he was short, he had to see the anger of the killers who made him an orphan, the despair of his father who tried in vain to save himself, the silhouette of the two murderers, disappeared after the execution.

Bad news in the heart of Naples. It’s 4.30pm yesterday, the area near the railway is an outdoor theatre. We are in the alley that connects through Alessandro Poerio to via della Maddalena. The kingdom is stalls, retail sales, cellars that are used as warehouses for all kinds of goods. The area is full of tourists, who focus on street food (cuoppo and wallet pizzas), but are careful to avoid the package professionals, while they hunt for Esposti wheel tips. Everything seems under control when the killers arrive. Murder in broad daylight, a few steps from the victim’s home. A scene to be reviewed in slow motion, due to what has appeared so far: Luigi Procopio had gone with his son to the home of relatives who live in the area. He found himself facing the two killers who did not let him escape. They were all on foot, victims and attackers. It is possible that the person who set the fire did not have a distorted face, so as not to scare the victim in advance, knowing full well that the road is not covered by video surveillance systems. Five blows reached Procopio. The rest is blood and fear, screams from the locals, then silence and silence.

The previous one

He had no time to escape, Luigi Procopio. A different story than what happened to him a couple of years ago. It was the 2022when he remained unharmed against the treachery of the Camorra. In via Foria, he was faster than the killers. Yesterday, he couldn’t do much. Even two years ago, he felt safe, because the attack against him happened around 7pm, when the traffic outside the Botanic Garden was very dense, with up to six shots on the burning at eye level. Car hit, people fleeing, miracle in Foria. But let’s go back to the murder, let’s try to offer an explanation for an incident that is clearly criminal. The name Luigi Procopio is part of an investigation that ended a few years ago in a series of arrests against members of the local Camorra. An attack was made as a result of the investigation carried out by the prosecutor Daughter of Naples Ida Teresisigned by the investigating judge Colucci, in which the name of the person who was killed yesterday was identified as allegedly connected to the Mazzarella clan. A scheme that has not yet been defined, then. As is known, the Maddalena area comes under the control of the Mazzarella family, but a few steps away there is another very frenetic commercial settlement, namely Borgo di Sant’Antonio («buvero»), which is traced back to the Botta family, and then close to the Bosti-Contini clans. In some comments the name of Luigi Procopio is mentioned as the person who will be called, indicating that those of the Mazzarella and Contini families have always kept the way of dialogue open. Criminal diplomacy, halfway between economic motives and dirty deals. At work on the crime committed yesterday, the men of the Flying Squad under the leadership of the first director Giovanni Leuci, who are moving through the latest actions in the life of the victim. According to what has emerged so far, Procopio ran a small car rental place in Via Carbonara, an activity from which investigations will begin to clarify the reasons and responsibility for the ambush yesterday afternoon. A story that brings attention to a metropolitan intersection that has long been quiet, on the altar of tourism.

The situation

Street food shops everywhere, some traditional pubs and places used as restaurants and breakfasts and holiday homes. Yesterday, the cold shower. No one thought of hiding in the light of day, in the middle of a whirlwind coming and going. A few minutes after the ambush, dozens of police patrols arrived. While the whole family unit went into the street. The little one went into his mother’s arms. His shadow line was consumed on a sunny autumn evening: from son to orphan, from child to survivor, from victim to witness to the murder of his father who shook his hand.