what it can reveal – Time

A turning point that comes when the Casalesi boss, protagonist of the Camorra wars, is now 70 years old, 26 years after his capture in a bunker in Casal di Principe where he was with his wife Giuseppina Nappa and his daughters. Francesco Schiavone, known by the nickname Sandokan, has begun to collaborate with justice. The boss’s repentance was anticipated by a local newspaper, Cronache di Caserta. Agi confirms that men from the police force have already proposed to relatives of the clan leader to enter the protection programme.

Francesco Schiavone, in the 1980s, became the absolute leader of one of the most economically and militarily powerful criminal organizations in Campania, with interests branched out across many regions. His ‘career’ began as the driver of the boss Umberto Ammaturo and with an arrest in 1972 when he was just 18 years old, for possession and possession of a firearm, but soon he was one of the protagonists of the Camorra war in the Caserta area, first becoming an affiliate of the group of Antonio Bardellino and Mario Iovine, leader in the Nuova Famiglia fighting with Raffaele Cutolo’s organized Nuova Camorra, and then the leader of the internal feud that leveraged Iovine (whose brother Domenico had been killed on Bardellino’s orders) to eliminate the clan leader in Brazil in 1988, immediately after taking control of the Casalesi. Furthermore, with Schiavone, the clan’s infiltration into various sectors of the legal economy and politics began.

His revelations could help investigators not only to reconstruct a piece of the history of the Camorra, identifying instigators and perpetrators of murders and ambushes, but also to understand the current structures of the Casalesi. Schiavone has had several convictions, including for murder, the best known of which was life imprisonment at the end of the famous Spartacus trial, and is under the 41 bis regime, confirmed in January 2018 by the Supreme Court which rejected a request for revocation presented by his lawyers . Among the family members who have been offered to enter the protection program is his son Ivanhoe. Before Sandokan, his sons Nicola had decided to collaborate with justice, in 2018, and then his second son, Walter, in 2021.