A pact, also cemented with a murder, between two criminal associations in the Neapolitan area to ensure control of the territory. Among those involved in the investigation was also a man, Pasquale Di Balsamo, who later died in a shooting on April 29 last.
In Acerra and Naples but also in Nuoro , where one of the arrested is in prison, the carabinieri have executed a precautionary custody order in prison against 6 people , issued by the investigating judge of the Naples Court at the request of the local Directorate District Anti-Mafia.
The measures were issued against as many suspects seriously suspected, for various reasons, of the crimes of concurrence in murder, illegal possession of weapons and receiving stolen goods, aggravated by the method and by the mafia purposes.
The investigative activity allowed, in summary, to document the existence and operation of two criminal groups, one formed in Afragola and coagulated around Cosimo Nicolì , 45, currently in prison in Nuoro , and the other led by Bruno Avventurato , aged 47, working in Acerra. The two associations - according to the accusation - in agreement with each other conceived and organized the murder of Pasquale Tortora, a prominent member of the homonymous clan active in Acerra and Casalnuovo di Napoli, which took place on May 20, 2020. Adventurato had provided the necessary logistical support to the assassins, while Nicolì had taken care of finding the killers. For this murder, the investigative unit of the Carabinieri of Castello di Cisterna has already arrested the material perpetrators of the crime.
Double motive for the murder: to avenge the killing of Giuseppe Avventurato , Bruno's brother and former head of the homonymous group, of which Tortora was held responsible, and to seal a pact between the two Camorra groups aimed at ensuring joint control of the traffic illegal in the territory of Acerra.
(Unioneonline / vl)
