Historic jailed Camorra mafia boss
Francesco Schiavone has turned state's witness, the daily
newspaper 'Cronache di Caserta' reported on Friday.
Nicknamed 'Sandokan' after the fictional action hero, the
undisputed leader of the Neapolitan Casalesi clan has
reportedly decided to cooperate with Naples prosecutors after 26
years in jail under the tough 41-bis prison regime.
The decision has been confirmed by the National Anti-Mafia
Directorate (DNA).
In recent days police have reportedly gone to the clan's base in
Casal di Principe to invite Schiavone's relatives, including his
son Ivahnoe, to enter the protection programme.
Two other sons, Nicola and Walter, decided to turn state's
witness respectively in 2018 and 2021, while Emanuele Libero and
Carmine remain in prison and Sandokan's wife Giuseppina Nappa is
not in Casal di Principe.
The Casalesi's death threats pushed anti-mafia writer Roberto
Saviano into a police protection scheme following the
publication of his best-selling exposé of the Camorra in 2006.
Arrested in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 in
the Spartacus trial against the Casalesi clan, Schiavone could
shed light on a number of unresolved mysteries including the
1988 murder of clan founder Antonio Bardellino in Brazil, and on
the relationship between the Camorra mafia and politics.
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