Puglia crime boss's nephew gunned down

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 2 - The nephew of a noted Puglia crime boss was gunned down in Bari Monday night.
    Raffaelle 'Lello' Capriati, nephew of Bari Vecchia clan leader Toino Capriati, was hit with three shots to the head and one in the back in an execution-like killing by a hitman on a motorbike, police said.
    The victim, 39, was released from prison in August 2022 after serving a 17-year sentence for the murder of 16-year-old Michele Fazio, killed by mistake in a mafia blood feud on July 2001.
    Tonino Capriati, one of 14 Bari clan chiefs, has been in the news lately after Puglia Governor Michele Emiliano said he had taken Mayor Antonio Decaro to the mobsters' sister and 'entrusted' him to her when Decaro was a councillor in Emiliano's previous city administration.
    After Decaro denied the episode, Emiliano said he had in fact misrembered it and Decaro had not gone to see Capriati's sister with him.
    Decaro, who has been under police protection from the mafia for the last eight years, is awaiting interior ministry inspectors who may recommend dissolving the council for mafia infiltration after 130 people were recently arrested in a local transport and vote buying probe. (ANSA).