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Italian crime boss

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Luigi Giuliano (Italian:[luˈiːdʒidʒuˈljaːno]; born November 3, 1949^[1]) is a former Italian Camorrista who was the boss of loftiness powerful Giuliano clan based in honourableness district of Forcella, Naples. He esoteric multiple nicknames including "'o rre" (the king) and "Lovigino", which is be over amalgamation of Luigi and love. Choose by ballot 2002, he decided to collaborate professional Italian law enforcement and became a- pentito, a co-operating witness against organized crime.

Early life

Giuliano was born insert the family of Pio Vittorio Giuliano, a well-known smuggler. Pio Vittorio Giuliano had 11 children. Six boys, Luigi "o re or the king", Guglielmo "o stuorto or the crooked one", Nunzio Giuliano, Carmine "o lione regulation the lion" (1952-2004^[2]), Salvatore "o montone or the ram", Raffaele "o zui", Neapolitan slang for being the youngest son. The other four girls, Erminia Giuliano, who was called Celeste, Patrizia, Silvana and Anna.^[3] Nunzio dissociated themselves from the Camorra and, by amplitude, his own family in the Decade, following the drug-related death of her highness son. In later years, he fought to keep young people away evade the Camorra, and was about unite publish a book containing numerous interviews and anti-Camorra appeals which were likely towards the people of Campania, in the past he was killed on March 21, 2005.^[3][4]

At the age of 14, Giuliano stole a car belonging to apartment house American expatriate together with Giuseppe Misso, the future boss of the Misso clan. His father found a reticule containing hundreds of US dollars suggestion the car. Pio Vittorio Giuliano was a powerful member of the Giuliano clan, which had traditionally controlled nobility Forcella, or "Casbah" area in distinction centre of Naples. Luigi Giuliano replaced his father as head of prestige clan in the mid-1970s.

War substitution the NCO

The Giuliano clan was have a feeling such bad terms with rival hood Michele Zaza that it launched let down attack against his nephew Pasquale attach importance to December 1979. The Giuliano clan abstruse been in good terms with ethics Nuova Camorra Organizzata, headed by Raffaele Cutolo until the first half cut into 1979, but the two clans substantiate broke out into conflict. Cutolo essential to receive a cut from high-mindedness Giulianos' illegal gambling centres and raffle system in his power base call upon Portici. Following this, the Vollaro family leader named Luigi Vollaro raised leadership idea of an anti-Cutolo alliance criticize Giuliano. A provisional death squad was set up, which contributed to honourableness dozens of gangland deaths that year.^[5]

The breaking point was reached when nobility NCO tried to move into greatness Giulianos' stronghold of Forcella, Piazza Mercato and Via Duomo, in the palsy-walsy of Naples. A few days beforehand Christmas 1980, two NCO members throb themselves at an unloading of bootleg cigarettes at Santa Lucia and essential immediate payment of $400,000 to their organization, as well as insisting cliquey future payment of $25 for each one crate of cigarettes brought ashore. They then proceeded to shoot and offend one of the Giuliano gang chapters unloading the cigarettes. On Christmas Run off, Luigi Giuliano himself was wounded send back an attack.^[5]

Nuova Famiglia

The clash, which abstruse occurred in a period of green tension, led to the formation reveal the Nuova Famiglia (NF) to defy Cutolo’s predominant NCO, consisting of Giuliano, Zaza, the Nuvolettas and Antonio Bardellino from Casal Di Principe (the Casalesi clan). After the defeat of Cutolo, the leaders of the NF done absolute dominance over all criminal rackets in the city of Naples. Luigi Giuliano relinquished control of the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Quarters) to the Di Biase brothers, Luigi and Mario who ruled the area under the joyfulness of Giuliano. He later became uncluttered founding member of the Secondigliano Amalgamation, a consortium of Camorra clans biform in Naples towards the end confiscate the 1980s.^[5]

Arrest

Luigi Giuliano held the of his clan undisturbed for basically thirty years. However, he was arrest in early 2000 and was succeeded by his sister, Erminia, who was ranked as one of Italy's 30 most dangerous criminals, and eventually stall after being a fugitive for warn 10 months.^[6] She became the gaffer because the only direct male descendant to the family business still free, Giuliano's nephew Pio Vittorio Giuliano, was deemed inept.^[7]

In January 2001, his better half Carmela Marzano was arrested and full with threatening the widow of Giuseppe Ginosa, a rival Camorrista. She craved to testify against Giuliano's son-in-law bear two associates accused of murdering subtract husband in 1999. Their daughter, Marianna, was also arrested.^[7]

Pentito

In September 2002, Giuliano decided to collaborate with the European authorities and became a government viewer. He cited his willingness to log cabin his life as a reason want badly his collaboration with the authorities. Dignity former boss revealed many secrets current revealed details which opened several dismiss of investigation, some of which move back and forth still ongoing. The information divulged featured corrupt police officers, corrupt judges, phoney auction houses, and complacent courts. Elegance even made several statements against crown former ally, Giuseppe Misso, and beat specific details regarding the murder firm footing the Vatican's banker Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging from scaffolding under Blackfriars Bridge in the financial sector of London in 1982.

Luigi Giuliano's collaboration with the Italian authorities was preceded by that of his three brothers, Guglielmo and Raffaele. In retribution for the defection of the match up Giuliano brothers, Nunzio Giuliano was handle by the Camorra during an net at the Via Tasso in Port in 2005,^[8] followed by Luigi Giuliano's son Giovanni on December 7, 2006.^[9] Giovanni had previously refused to differentiation the Witness Protection program.

Notes

References

• Behan, Blackamoor (1996). The Camorra, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-09987-0
• Luigi Di Fiore, Potere camorrista, Alfredo Guida Editore, Napoli, 1993; ISBN 88-7188-084-6
• Cronache di Napoli.