Twin towers: the Camorra was aware of the attacks

The penitent is called Biagio Di Lanno and was a member of the clan Polverino, a powerful clan in Marano and Quarto. He revealed to the DDA in Naples that some members of the Neapolitan Camorra were aware of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York (11 September 2001) and the existence of a plan stragista in Madrid, culminating in the bomb blasts in the train station (11 March 2004). He wrote the Neapolitan daily Il Mattino in an article by Leandro Del Gaudio.

It 's one of the aspects of the investigation of drug trafficking in Spain clan led by Giuseppe Polverino, who was arrested on March 7 2012  in Jerez de la Frontera. Clan that would work in Spain weaving close relations with some members of Islamic terrorism. According to the reconstruction of Il Mattino, the associate justice would recognize in the photo the Maghreb Rachid Echemiali Rahmani, 34, arrested in Malaga, linked to some members of Al Qaeda involved in the attack in Madrid in 2004. "It 'a wholesaler hashish, was one of us. He came to lunch at the home of Sabadino Cerullo, which I attended and Angelo D'Alterio and another Moroccan who accompanied Rachid ". The lunch would take place in the months prior to the aircraft bomb in New York and Di Lanno has no doubt about the identity of the second Moroccan is one of the suicide bombers of the massacre of 2001, is being held up at the table as one of "those who are going to kill ".

Rachid then he received a phone call, in Spanish, at the end of which he told D'Alterio that something would happen, (meaning an attack), using aircraft. And then something would happen on the underground trains in Spain. "I remember Sabadino Cerullo own in the aftermath of those terrible attacks bragged that he had hosted at his home a person who had had to deal with those who had committed the attack," said the penitent, whose memory though - he wrote The morning - is not entirely linear, in the light of the fact that among the events in New York and Madrid spend almost three years. Of Lanno finally explains that a possible "big brother" Rachid was decided to sacrifice himself for Al Qaeda, "D'Alterio, who had a very close relationship with Rachid, often in his conversations with Cerullo, commenting on the aftermath of the room and the phone call made in Spanish by Rachid, in this way: "Do you understand, the brother of this (or Rachid) is going to kill ...".

The investigation is being coordinated by prosecutors Antonello Ardituro and Marco Del Gaudio and conducted by the police provincial command of Naples. The application file is detailed the existence of a traffic 'grass' sorted by the Camorra in the coffers of Al Qaeda. In February 2011 the police have arrested 23 people between the Neapolitan and Spain. Rachid, according to investigators, was in charge of the transfer of drugs from Morocco to Spain. In Italy, the drug came overland in cars that altered mechanical complacent in Marano obtaining "double bottoms" in the body to hide the substance.
Source : http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/06/02/torri-gemelle-il-mattino-di-napoli-la-camorra-sapeva-degli-attentati/249745/