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Rafaele Coutolo, the powerful godfather of the Napoli mafia, Camorra, died today in Parma prison at the age of 79.
Koutolo suffers from chronic diseases and has been in prison since 1971. The curious, but impressive thing (the result of his criminal career and alliances) was that for several years he managed to fully control the illegal activities of the Camorra. giving orders inside his cell.
Today’s comment by writer and journalist Roberto Saviano is typical: “Koutolo was stronger than the prime minister.” He held all of Italy hostage and the country bowed to his power, “the newspaper Corriere della Sera was quoted as saying. .
Coutolo’s criminal course began in 1970, with his involvement in the illicit sale of cigarettes, which in Naples and much of southern Italy had often secured the tolerance of the authorities.
In 1971 he was taken to prison and planned the “reform” of the Neapolitan mafia, with a pyramidal structure, like the Cosa Nostra in Sicilia. The prince becomes a personality that no one can dispute. With Koutolos, the “New Organized Camorra” becomes a paramilitary organization and is deeply rooted in drug trafficking and the extortion of money from merchants and businessmen through blackmail.
In 1977, “Don Rafaele” was transferred to a psychiatric hospital from which he escaped, thanks to the explosion of a bomb, a year later. Koutolo expands and strengthens his activity: he creates new relationships with criminal organizations in Rome and Milan, but also with the powerful Calabrian mafia, Drageta.
The “New Organized Camorra” makes millions from cocaine trafficking throughout the Naples region, while local politicians “turn a blind eye.”
The members of the Camorra factions that did not want to ally with him in the 1980s formed the “New Family” alliance, with which they tried to challenge Coutolo’s almost unlimited power: In the neighborhoods of the great city of southern Italy it begins a “civil war”, which caused dozens of deaths and hundreds of wounded.
At the same time, as many commentators point out today, from prison, the Napoli boss managed to establish close relations with “derailed sectors” of the Italian secret services. So much so that he allegedly played a key role in the release of regional councilor Ciro Cirillo, who, in 1981, had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
The Italian justice in recent years has refused to accept Coutolo’s request for the rescheduling of life imprisonment, arguing that despite his health problems and advanced age, he remains a reference point for organized crime.
As a typical example, finally, many report that despite being held in solitary confinement, eight months ago he had managed to give an interview to a major newspaper in Baja Italia, with which he again sent the message that “I was never going to to go”. repent and cooperate with justice “.
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