Casalesi Clan

Italian mafia leader caught

2009-09-28T04:42:00.000-07:00

Customs officers apprehended Italian mafia boss and international fugitive Giancarlo De Luca when he attempted to cross the Hungarian-Romanian border last week. De Luca narrowly escaped when Italian police arrested six members of the Naples-based Casalesi clan in a raid on 17 July and had been on the run ever since, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

Read full article here: http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/13081/219/

Italy fights mob terror near Naples

2008-11-16T05:01:00.000-08:00

CASAL DI PRINCIPE, Italy — The paratroopers' armored vehicles had barely taken up position in this fiefdom of the Casalesi crime clan when the mobsters decided to show who was boss.

On a sleepy Sunday, a few hundred yards from where the crack Thunderbolt brigade was deployed with automatic rifles, two gunmen drove down the town's main street and pumped bullets into a 60-year-old man at a table just inside the entrance of a card parlor.

The murder of an uncle of a crime syndicate turncoat left blood oozing across the stone sidewalk and a collective silence by potential witnesses among fellow card players, prompting a wry comment that the victim must have been playing solitaire.

Read full article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-16-931996249_x.htm

Casalesi Mafia behind killing of Ghanaians

2008-10-03T04:56:00.000-07:00

The powerful Casalesi Camorra clan is believed to have been behind the massacre at the Italian town of Castelvolturno, in which six African immigrants including three Ghanaians were slaughtered.

Police reports said the incident began with the shooting of an amusement arcade's 53-year-old Italian owner, known to have had links with the Casalesi.

Twenty minutes later, in another part of town, the six immigrants were mown down in a 120-round hail of fire from semi-automatic pistols and Kalashnikovs.

Read full article here: http://news.myjoyonline.com/international/200810/21237.asp

Brief history of the Casalesi Clan

2008-10-03T04:50:00.000-07:00

The Casalesi clan, which takes its name from the town of Casal di Principe near Naples, has been described as the successor of the Corleone family, which ruled Sicily in the 1980s.

The bloodthirsty family is thought to have carried out more than 1,000 hits in the past 30 years to establish an iron grip on the area between Naples and Salerno.

However, Francesco Schiavone, the head of the clan, will now spend the rest of his life in prison after being successfully convicted.

Read full article here: http://www.modernghana.com/news/184768/1/brief-history-of-the-casalesi-clan.html

Police arrest suspects in Mafia killings

2008-09-30T04:59:00.000-07:00

ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian authorities Tuesday arrested two suspects believed to be responsible for the September 18 killing of six African immigrants in Castelvolturno, a small town of 20,000 residents north of Naples.

Police also arrested a third man wanted by authorities for belonging to the same clan, but not directly linked to the killings.

The victims were gunned down in a hail of bullets as they stood outside a store selling ethnic goods. The attack sparked a riot by immigrants who complained about "racism" but officials suspect a dispute over drug trafficking.

Read full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/30/italy.mafia.killings.arrest/index.html

Riot after Africans shot in Italy

2008-09-19T04:47:00.000-07:00

Immigrants in a southern Italian town have rioted after six Africans were killed in a suspected mafia attack outside a shop.

People smashed windows and threw rocks in Castelvolturno, north-west of the city of Naples.

The six men from Ghana, Liberia and Togo were shot dead late on Thursday.

Read full article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7626099.stm

Casalesi Mob Tries To Buy Lazio; Former NASL Star Giorgio Chinaglia Arrested.

2008-07-22T04:55:00.000-07:00

We often joke about how everything in Italian soccer is fixed, and how the mob is usually in on everything, and yadda yadda yadda. It gets a bit old, right? That is, until the mob actually tries to purchase an Italian soccer team in order to launder some of their hard-earned stolen cash. Can you imagine the consequences of losing a few games in a row with that team? Bang! Bang! is correct.

Read full article here: http://anyguey.guanabee.com/2008/07/casalesi-mob-tries-to-buy-lazio-former-nasl-star-giorgio-chinaglia-arrested/

4 Bosses of Italy Mob Clan Receive Life Sentences

2008-06-20T05:02:00.000-07:00

ROME — An epic trial of Italy's most powerful mafia families has ended with life sentences for four godfathers, decapitating a clan worth an estimated $40 billion.

The Casalesi clan, which took its name from the town of Casal di Principe near Naples, has been described as the successor to the Corleone family, which ruled Sicily in the 1980s.

The clan is thought to have carried out more than 1,000 murders in the past 30 years to establish an iron grip on the area between Naples and Salerno.

Read full article here: http://www.nysun.com/foreign/4-bosses-of-italy-mob-clan-receive-life-sentences/80343/

Mafia godfathers jailed for life in landmark murder trial

2008-06-19T04:48:00.000-07:00

The Casalesi clan, which takes its name from the town of Casal di Principe near Naples, has been described as the successor of the Corleone family, which ruled Sicily in the 1980s.

The bloodthirsty family is thought to have carried out more than 1,000 hits in the past 30 years to establish an iron grip on the area between Naples and Salerno.

However, Francesco Schiavone, the head of the clan, will now spend the rest of his life in prison after being successfully convicted.

Read full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2158768/Mafia-godfathers-jailed-for-life-in-landmark-murder-trial.html

Mafia bosses held meetings in police station

2007-09-29T04:45:00.000-07:00

Mafia bosses normally try to avoid going anywhere near jail, but crime leaders near Naples have been discovered holding meetings in their local police station.

Mobsters linked to a notorious Camorra clan used the station telephone and snorted cocaine at the command post of the traffic police in San Cipriano d'Aversa. Investigators believe that the red carpet was rolled out to gang members by Giuseppe Iovine, a former policeman and the brother of feared Casalesi clan boss Antonio Iovine, who has been on the run since 1996 and is wanted for murder.

Read full article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/29/italy.drugstrade