After a 27-year-old tells all 'o ninno, century Antonio Iovine. The statements of the former boss of the Casalesi arrested on 17 November 2010, after 14 years of absconding and today collaborator of justice, have contributed not a little to shed light on the murder of policeman Antonio Diana, killed in 30 years in San Cipriano d’aversa (Caserta) on February 11, 1989. Deleted because it is considered a traitor. In the context of a coordinated investigation of the Direction of the district anti-Mafia of Naples, the carabinieri of the core investigative Caserta have taken an order for custody in prison against seven people, considered to be at the top of the Casalesi clan, and, in various ways, the instigators and the perpetrators of the murder of the agent of the municipal police. Among these are Francesco Schiavone, aka 'Sandokan', at the time the boss emerging. For the investigators it would have been he give the order to kill the policeman. The investigation was reopened in may 2014 following the statements made by some collaborators of justice, including Iovine: "The last murder, in which I personally participated in as a performer". As considered by the investigators to the murder has matured in the world war ii for the power that was unleashed due to the split of the clan Bardellino and that has fostered the birth of the mafia groups that are antagonistic.
THE CONTEXT OF the INTERNAL WAR – Antonio Bardellino is a founder and the chief town until the Eighties of the Casalesi clan. To threaten the power of his family, the faction of the clan, headed by Schiavone, Francesco Bidognetti, aka 'Bloat midnight' and Vincenzo De Falco, said, 'or escape', that he managed to get the better of that decimated militarily and composed by the members remained faithful to the family of Bardellino, the summit of which there was Antonio Salzillo said, 'Capacchione', nephew of the direct boss, the founder. The context was that of San Cipriano d’aversa, where organised crime controlled all the administrative apparatus of the city. So much so, that the brother of the former boss Antonio Iovine, Joseph, worked as a agent of the municipal police, while he was chief of the technical office, the brother of another prominent element of the clan, Giuseppe Caterino, said 'Peppinotto'.
The MURDER – The policeman Antonio Diana was killed in the early afternoon of February 1, 1989, while he was in service. A native of Aversa, he was 30 years old and from five it was the guardia municipal. It was right near the headquarters of the Municipality, in the town Hall square when he was approached by a car from which the killers the exploded against the blows of a rifle shot. For him there was no escape. He was killed because the Mafia thought was involved in the murder of a man of their own, Michele Russo. The suspicion is that he had done by 'specchiettista', signaling the presence of the target to the assassins of the clan Bardellino. 'He had given the joke' they say the camorra.
ORDINANCE – To the chief of the Casalesi Francesco Schiavone, held by 20 years, the order of detention was served in prison. he Is accused of being the instigator of the murder of the policeman, consumed in the context of the war that at the end of the years '80 and on the other the two rival groups. In addition to Schiavone, who is now 64 years old and had already held the other recipients of the measure. In particular, the alleged killer of the vigilant, then that have become highlights of the clan, Raffaele Diana, 63-year-old said, 'Rafilotto' and Giuseppe Caterino of 62 years, alias 'Peppinotto'. They were already in prison, and another alleged assassin, Francesco Mauriello, and two affiliates, the Paschal Spierto and Antonio Basque, which according to the prosecution, would be employed to get rid of the weapons and the car used for the attack. There was also the boss Antonio Iovine, in command of the fire. The only one to be free was the flanker of the clan Giovanni Diana. In his home of San Cipriano D’aversa the police have found an old bunker, which in the past has housed fugitives in the hunt for a place to hide. Diana, now 70, was granted house arrest.
THE MYSTERY of THE DEATH OF BARDELLINO AND the LINK WITH THE ALERT – The investigation into the murder of the policeman Antonio Diana and the statements of Iovine have provided more elements to the Direction of the district anti-Mafia of Naples on the presumed death of Bardellino, the corpse (along with its treasure) has never been found. According to the stories of some of the informers, Bardellino was to be killed in Brazil in may 1988, from his right-hand man, Mario Iovine, in turn murdered in Portugal in 1991. Doubt that Bardellino is actually dead in South America at the end of the Eighties, however, are also the statements made in 1993 by Tommaso Buscetta, to which Bardellino was linked and of which he was a partner in the business. Not only. There is also a true story: the tragedy, the airline of the Azores on the 8th of February 1989, which led to 144 victims. The boss was already dead or, at least, everyone thought. A Boeing 707 take off from the airport Orio al Serio of Bergamo and direct to Santo Domingo crashed into Pico Alto, a mountain on the island of the archipelago off the coast of Portugal. On that flight, according to some testimonies, there would have been a person close to Bardellino, that he would have to give him a passport. Many believe that the boss is hiding right in Santo Domingo. That document would have been been procured for their by the policeman Antonio Diana. Killed on 11 February, three days after the plane crash.
