The massacre of St. Valentine and St. Alexander

The massacre of St. Valentine
After yet another massacre, Al Capone, nicknamed "The Neapolitan" because native of Campania (Castellammare di Stabia), became the undisputed leader of Chicago. Now all the smuggling and illegal trafficking of alcohol in his hands. Italian Americans are the undisputed masters of the square and the prohibition America is unable to effectively counter the rampant crime.

The decisive action, the one that will give it the absolute command of the Chicago mob, takes place February 14, 1929, when five of his men, disguised as policemen, surprise seven belonging to the rival Irish gang, headed by George "Bugsy" Moran. Strong authority given to them by the uniform capture them, take them to a garage at 2122 North Clark Street and kill them all with strokes of Thompson submachine guns. It seems that each body has been found not less than fifty bullets. Al Capone was in Florida where he has to lay in a process and can easily prove his innocence against the full facts of Chicago.

The career of Al Capone (1895-1947) will end a few years later, when a team of FBI agents ("untouchables") led by Eliot Ness, will be able to arrest him for tax evasion. Imprisoned in the penitentiary of San Francisco, Alcatraz Island, will be released in 1939 as suffering from dementia, arose as a result of syphilis contracted years earlier. He moved to Miami, Florida, died from stroke in 1947.

Will happen to the Sicilian Salvatore Sam Giancana (1908-1975) who becomes a friend of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe. Operated by the CIA, will have the task of killing Fidel Castro (operation ever undertaken) and will be eliminated when the Senate will call him to testify on the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. At the same time will also murdered his partner of Giancana, Johnny Roselli and Nicoletti Chuck. In fact, several witnesses had put them in connection with the murders of the Kennedy brothers and the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe.

Many successful films have told the life of Al Capone and the massacre in Chicago. From Valentine's Day massacre will also build the famous movie "Some Like It Hot" by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis.

The massacre of St. Alexander
Business billion for illegal drugs ranging from slaughter at the fish market and smuggling of cigarettes. To defend the control gained in recent times with merciless settling of accounts and fierce reprisals, war was declared on the boss Valentino Gionta, emerging figure of the Camorra, who had formed a clan brave. His men would be found, August 26, in the Circle of fishermen, in the center of Torre Annunziata. To delete them, was the bloodiest organized "expedition dimorte" that ever took place, in the Campania region, since the war. A terrifying sequence, with a killing eight people dead and seven wounded. The wall of silence that protects organized crime has been exceeded by the investigators (judiciary, police, Criminalpol, squad, the Guardia di Finanza), which have now identified the instigators of the massacre (Bardellino Antonio, Carmine Alfieri, Fabbroncino Mario, Luigi Muollo) and fifty-four have issued arrest warrants. Rebuild the phases of numerous crimes that preceded the massacre of 26 August and the web of power that the clan of New family have built in 'Vesuvius area. "The investigation was difficult because we move in a social context that is objectively very complex," says the head of the squad Franco Malvano. The judges who coordinated the 'investigation - the prosecutors of the Republic Armando Cono Lancuba, Archangel Miller and Antonio Iervolino - emphasize how, with the massacre of Torre Annunziata, they skipped the banks of ferocity. "The victims, killed with great fanfare to give the criminal fact a valence of supremacy - say the judges - they were not the boss, but men with no history connected to Gionta only very marginal." Now, all the vast hinterland of the massacre is known well. The Gionta clan-Vangone had become very powerful. Around it had created a web of business very profitable. As he grew the sphere of influence, also increased the bosses linked to the clan. The investigating judge issued Palmeri, with regard to this part of the 'investigation, thirty arrest warrants. The charges of conspiracy mafia purpose of trafficking of drugs, so much on the head, Valentino Gionta, as his most trusted lieutenants: Luigi Limelli (head of the group Vangone) and Lorenzo bubble. Growing up in the 'sphere of New family, Valentino Gionta had participated in all the activities developed by the clans against the bands of Raffaele Cutolo. It was the time when, in order to better cope with the superpadrino Octavian, Speech Lorenzo Antonio and Bardellino were closely linked. They separated when they thought that Cutolo, now locked up in prison and unable to drive trafficking, could give little hassle. A separation that led almost immediately to the clash. Torre Annunziata Gionta clan-Vangone did not hesitate to ally with Lorenzo bubble. Torre Annunziata, where in the meantime had exploded a severe socio-economic crisis to the collapse of almost all the 'industrial apparatus, Valentino Gionta order for its affiliates to eliminate anyone caught selling heroin to detail. But the field of drugs is not enough. Gionta restores, financing it with four hundred million, the meat market. Intimate to the dealers in the area who until that moment had been supplied to the markets controlled by its rivals, the Ensigns, to use its facilities. Do not save the fish market in Torre Annunziata. Its penetration, however, encounters obstacles by people linked to Bardellino. Last June, all 'inside of the fish market, is killed a prominent figure in the organization' s opponent in Gionta. A vendetta to stop any tiles.The to 'input emerging boss. E 'at this point, according to investigators, the clan of Bardellino and reorganizes the counterattack. L 'lens is the circle of fishermen here because, usually, they use restrain men from Gionta. The "death squad" acted according to a plan drawn up in detail. The commando killer, all professionals in the crime, was formed by ten to fifteen elements. The 'bus to Via Castello was stolen August 18, just days before the massacre, in San Marcellino in Scalea. A decisive contribution to the 'identification of the principals and the killer, as for the reconstruction of the map of the power of the Camorra in' Vesuvius area, seems to have come from the confessions of a new racketeer repentant inmate in a prison facility in Tuscany. The young man, however, would have spoken and pronounced names, but it would then signed the minutes of its revelations. Another positive factor was the discovery, on a plot of 'Naples-Salerno motorway, a red Golf weapons charge. There was also a .22-caliber rifle that, according to investigators, has been used so far, in the Campania region, only in the massacre of Torre Annunziata. The other weapons were in the hands of Franco Ambrosio, Gennario Brasiello, Ferdinand Cesarano, Gaetano Mercury, Constantine Laiola, Giuseppe Di Somma.