List of victims of the Camorra

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This list of victims of the Camorra includes people who have been killed by the Neapolitan Camorra while opposing its rule. It does not include people killed in internal conflicts of the Camorra itself.

1980s[edit]

1982[edit]

  • April 1 – Aldo Semerari, a 58-year-old Italian criminologist, psychiatrist and political diplomat, is murdered on the orders of Umberto Ammaturo and Pupetta Maresca.[1]
  • July 2 – Salvatore Nuvoletta, a 20-year-old Italian Carabinieri was murdered by the Casalesi clan, under false suspicion of having taken part in a firefight in which clan member Mario Schiavone was killed.[2]

1985[edit]

1990s[edit]

1994[edit]

  • March 19 – Giuseppe Diana, a priest in Casal di Principe who had been known as a campaigning cleric since he issued a letter in late 1992 urging his parishioners to shun the Camorra.[4]

2000s[edit]

2002[edit]

2004[edit]

  • November 21 – Gelsomina Verde, a 22-year-old woman, tortured and killed in an effort to make her disclose the whereabouts of her former Camorra boyfriend.[6]
  • March 27 – Annalisa Durante, a 14-year-old girl killed in the Forcella quarter of Naples, during a clash between two rival Camorra clans.[7]

2008[edit]

2010s[edit]

2016[edit]

  • June 7 – Ciro Colonna, 19 years old, killed along with Raffaele Cepparulo (considered the target of the assassins), by the Rinaldi and De Luca Bossa clans in the Naples neighborhood of Ponticelli.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ (in Italian) Il boss Ammaturo confessa: 40 avvisi, Corriere della Sera, May 24, 1994
  2. ^ (in Italian) Fiaccola in memoria di Salvatore Nuvoletta Archived 2012-09-08 at archive.today - January 21, 2009, Pupia.tv
  3. ^ "Giancarlo Siani". Archived from the original on 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  4. ^ Gunmen Linked to the Mafia Kill an Italian Priest in His Sacristy, The New York Times, March 20, 1994
  5. ^ Frattamaggiore ricorda il sindacalista Federico Del Prete Archived 2012-09-15 at archive.today - pupia.tv
  6. ^ ‘The blood is running': Mafia wars erupt again Archived 2008-10-18 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, December 8, 2004
  7. ^ Girl hit in Mafia shooting dies, BBC News, March 29, 2004
  8. ^ Camorra Informer Murdered in Casalesi Gang’s Stronghold, Corriere della Sera, June 2, 2008
  9. ^ Venti colpi di pistola per un imprenditore che aveva denunciato clan dei Casalesi - Corriere della Sera, May 16, 2008
  10. ^ "Giustizia per Ciro Colonna, 8 condanne all'ergastolo per l'omicidio dell'innocente e del ras dei Barbudos - I NOMI". Voce di Napoli (in Italian). 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2019-11-19.