The defense tries to demolish the accusatory system of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples asking for the acquittal and the exclusion of the aggravating circumstance of the mafia methodology for Luigi D’Antonio and Assunta Castellano. This is what happened during the hearing held before the gup Saverio Vertuccio of the Court of Naples in the trial celebrated with an abbreviated rite for the person responsible for the ambush against the sons of the Casalesi Ciro Taurino, alias Ciruzz and Pescopagano, Alessio and Salvatore Taurino , as well as Antonio Alfano, a friend of the Taurino family the night before August 15th 2019.
In the continuation of the discussions of the defenders of the 8 accused, the lawyer Enrico Capone took the floor and in his harangue for Luigi D’Antonio and his mother Assunta Castellano asked for acquittal with the exclusion of the aggravating circumstance of the mafia methodology. The defender contested the role of Luigi D’Antonio built by the Neapolitan Dda regarding the murderous intention against the Germans Taurino and his friend Alfano. In the opinion of the lawyer, some elements regarding the criminal offenses contested against the D’Antonio-Castellano relatives would be non-existent during the investigation.
In addition to D’Antonio and Castellano, Teresa Venosa, Lorenzo Esposito De Rosa, Francesco Iorio, Felice Marfella, Rosario Andrea Guida, Giorgio Monaco also ended up on trial, accused in various ways of attempted murder, detention and abusive carrying of weapons, aggravated extortion. The Public Prosecutor of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples Graziella Arlomede during his indictment invoked 12 years of imprisonment for D’Antonio, 6 years of imprisonment for his mother Castellano, 6 years for the ex-girlfriend Venosa, 9 years for De Rosa , Iorio, Marfella and Guida; 3 years for Monaco. We return to court in the middle of June for the conclusion of the arguments of the defenders and the reading of the device. The lawyers Enrico Capone, Mirella Baldascino, Paolo Caterino, Domenico Dello Iacono, Emilia Santagata, Rocco Maria Spina, Crescenzo Maisto, Michele Di Fraia, Alfonso and Gabriele Sciacca are involved in the defense board.
According to the reconstruction of the DDA, the accused would have participated in the ambush with specific homicidal intentions against the designated victims. On the night of August 14, 2019 in Castel Volturno in via Consortile the assault group equipped with baseball bats and weapons would have blocked the way to the Fiat Panda on which their targets were traveling aboard motorcycles and scooters. Once blocked they would start hitting the vehicle, shattering the rear window and then take up two Beretta sawed-off shotguns, exploding numerous shots. Alfano who was the front passenger was tapped into an arm, the Taurino Germans were saved only thanks to their quick reflexes. The group after the armed assault in the vicinity of Bar Attila exploded shots in the air as a celebration.
The investigations launched by the men of the Flying Squad of the Caserta Police Headquarters made it possible to identify the perpetrators and to discover the motive for the murderous intent: the supremacy over the castellane drugstore squares. After the arrest D’Antonio with the help of his mother and girlfriend of the time would have asked for money from his associates to guarantee the silence of the criminal intentions. The purpose was a contribution to the detention.
