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An antique carriage drawn by six horses, a motorcade of 12 limousines and SUVs, a helicopter flying over the area and dropping red petals. As background sound reason for the soundtrack of The Godfather (“The Godfather”), Francis Ford Coppola performed by a brass band. St. John Bosco Parish, the Cinecittà neighborhood: we are not on one of the many movie sets hosted by Rome in August but at a funeral. The crowd is here to give their last homage to Vittorio Casamonica, 65, a great man namesake, known and feared Roman clan composed of Sinti families, originally from Abruzzo and active in the capital since the ’70s with a specialization on first racket and wear, then in the drug trade that brings the organization to contacts and alliances with the ‘Ndrangheta and the Magliana Gang (Vittorio Casamonica it was for a period the employee for recovery credit). The funeral rites conclude with the same pomp with which they had started: the coffin is loaded on a Rolls-Royce and the band starts to play another reason evocative, that of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Web sites began to spread images of ” event ‘(the news also ends up in the New York Times) that will be on stage the very next day at the first hearing of the maxi-trial of Mafia Capital (each in which the name of Casamonica appears more than once). The quiet Agostini dissolves in an instant and the controversy takes off instantly. “Rome turned into a set of the Godfather is an affront,” attacks first Commissioner Roman Pd Matteo Orfini. What happened “is an offense against Rome and in Rome shows that the Mafia exists,” he says after the deputy mayor Marco Cause. For Rosy Bindi (Pd), chairman of the Anti-Mafia, “is alarming that the funeral of a member of the clan Casamonica, involved in many surveys on crime and Mafia Roman capital, has turned into a show of mafia.”
The scenes Hollywood create embarrassment in the Vicariate of Rome, which stresses, however, as the canon law did not oblige the priest to reject the celebration. And giant posters with photos of the boss portrait with the garments of the Pope and the words “You have conquered Rome, now conquer heaven”? “What happened outside the church is not the responsibility of the parish priest and, unbeknownst to him, during the celebration, were hung up posters.” Explanations that do not serve to stem a tide unstoppable. Because it turns out that Don Bosco is the same church that in 2006 denied the funeral to Piergiorgio Welby, a patient with ALS terminally erected into a symbol of euthanasia who asked health to pull the plug. Not only in that same parish in ’90 was celebrated the funeral of another boss, this time of Banda Magliana: Renato De Pedis.
It is evening when the Mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino intervenes – via social network, not in the city – about a having “called the Prefect because the facts are established with due rigor.” “It is intolerable that the funerals are tools of the living to send mobsters,” added the mayor. In the evening the intervention of Interior Minister Angelino Alfano (Sel announces a query) that asks the prefect of Rome, Franco Gabrielli, a report on the matter. Which, had admitted earlier the same Gabrielli, “the prefecture had no cognizance.” Unaware even the police (“No news as to the holding of the event had been communicated”) who initiated investigations with ENAC on overflight and the launch of petals by helicopter.
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