Two bosses of the Neapolitan Polverino clan have been convicted after more than 22 years for the murder of construction worker Giulio Giaccio. They ordered the 26-year-old killed and dissolved in acid. Particularly tragic: the victim was the victim of a fatal mix-up!
On the night of July 30, 2000, Giulio Giaccio disappeared without a trace. As a dropout about 22 years later revealed, the young construction worker was the victim of a murder warrant by Salvatore Cammarota (55) and Carlo Nappi (64), two bosses of the Neapolitan Polverino clan. “They were after a man accused of having an affair with Cammarota’s niece,” the dropout said. This is where Giaccio came across.
Victim subject to confusion
But the construction worker was mistaken for a man named Salvatore, whom the two Camorristi also accused of belonging to an enemy clan. Although the 26-year-old protested that he wasn’t the person he was looking for, Cammarota and Nappi didn’t believe him. Before being shot in the head, Giaccio said: “You made a mistake. I come from a good family.”
The young man’s body was turned over to Camorra chief Cammarota, who knocked his teeth out “if the acid they were dissolving his body in didn’t affect his teeth,” the informant said.
The tragic thing about this murder: it was only much later that the two clan bosses noticed that there had been a mix-up.
The Camorristi offered family compensation
The case, more than 20 years ago, was clarified in December 2022. The trial of Cammarota and Nappi will begin in Naples on Monday. Before the trial began, the two tried to avoid life imprisonment with a bizarre proposal: the lawyers of the mafia bosses offered Giaccio’s family several properties worth 120,000 euros and three checks totaling 30,000 euros “as full compensation for the material damage suffered and moral damage”.
But Giaccio’s family refused. “We demand justice for those who wiped Giulio’s smile,” Italian newspaper Il Gazzettino quoted the family’s lawyer as saying.
Source: Krone
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