Roberto Mazzarella captured, reducing Italy’s dangerous fugitives list to three
Roberto Mazzarella, ranked fourth on the Ministry of the Interior’s list of most dangerous fugitives, was apprehended without resistance while possessing forged identity documents and cash.
Mazzarella’s capture reduces Italy’s most dangerous fugitives to three, highlighting a significant decrease in the criminal landscape connected to organised crime.
“I express enormous satisfaction for the brilliant operation carried out,” stated Chiara Colosimo, president of the Anti-Mafia Commission, on X.
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Roberto Mazzarella, 48, was captured, marking a significant decrease in Italy’s most dangerous fugitives to three. He was fourth on the Ministry of the Interior’s list of notorious fugitives.
The operation yielded approximately €20,000 in cash, luxury watches, mobile phones, forged identity documents, and clan account notes under investigation. Mazzarella did not resist arrest.
Institutional responses have been positive, with Chiara Colosimo of the Anti-Mafia Commission expressing satisfaction, while Pina Picierno of the European Parliament highlighted the operation as a significant triumph against organised crime.
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Mazzarella, 48, was fourth on the Ministry of the Interior’s list of the most dangerous fugitives (source in Italian). With this capture, the list of Italy’s so-called superlatitantes is reduced to three names: Attilio Cubeddu, Giovanni Motisi and Renato Cinquegranella.
The fugitive did not resist during the operations, which found about 20 thousand euro in cash, three valuable watches, mobile phones and forged identity documents, as well as handwritten notes on which the clan’s accounts are being investigated.
Who is the boss Roberto Mazzarella
The investigation that led to the arrest warrant concerns a grisly event that took place twenty-four years ago. Roberto Mazzarella is believed to be the instigator and executor of the murder of Antonio Maione, killed in 2000 in San Giovanni a Teduccio. The victim, not involved in camorristic activities, was the brother of the killer of the boss’s father, Salvatore Mazzarella, who was killed in 1995.
The Mazzarella family controls much of the smuggling and drug trafficking in Naples and its province, of which it shares control with the so-called Secondigliano Alliance, and the laundering of proceeds via Milan and northern Italy.
Institutional leaders and lawmakers welcomed the successful operation. The president of the Anti-Mafia Commission, Chiara Colosimo, declared on X: ”I express enormous satisfaction for the brilliant operation carried out”. While MEPs/en/124846/PINA%5FPICIERNO/home” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer”>Pina Picierno, a vice-president of the European Parliament, stressed the importance of the result: ”A great victory for the State and a clear signal in the fight against mafias”.