Cassano, Forastefano had to die: the background to the ambush in Lupara

John

By John

Domenico Forastefano had to die. The killer who fired a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with buckshot at “a urinal” was surprised by the reactive ability of the 62-year-old from Cassano, failing to close the “contract” that had been entrusted to him. This is the certainty that investigators have after three weeks of investigations and the outcome of the investigations carried out at the scene of the ambush carried out at the entrance of a Sybarite farm. And the planned killing of Forastefano, Pasquale’s father, considered the emerging boss of the gang, should have marked a new beginning. The beginning of a different hegemony in the Piana which has been bloodied for decades by ruthless executions carried out to mark the advent of mafia oligarchies.
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