Chilling Camorra Ambush Caught on Camera in Torre Annunziata

A car halts, two men running around it, one of them collapses, and the other, coldly, points a gun at his head and shoots to finish him off: these are the stages of a Camorra ambush that took place on the evening of last February 7th in Torre Annunziata, captured by a surveillance camera and now surfaced online. The shocking images of the deadly ambush, which occurred in the very central Corso Umberto, were also published by Francesco Emilio Borrelli, a deputy of the Green Left Alliance, to whom the video was reported by some people after it began circulating online and on chat groups. Borrelli has handed the footage over to law enforcement. In the video, which lasts 25 seconds, the victim, the 24-year-old ex-convict Alfonso Fontana from Castellammare di Stabia, is seen trying to escape his executioner, running around a car that had just arrived and, by chance, found itself in the middle of a murder scene. Already hit in the legs, Fontana tries to block the killer's path by opening the car door, but is hit again: wounded in the abdomen, the young man collapses, then is finished off with a coup de grâce to the head. Then the assassin calmly walks away. The motorist also starts the car and flees. A couple of weeks ago, the Carabinieri arrested a man, accused of the murder: it is Catello Marino, 52 years old, known as 'o puparolo, a repeat offender considered close to the Camorra clan of the D'Alessandros. He would be the killer caught on video. According to investigators, Alfonso Fontana was one of the young recruits of the Stabiese crime world and would have been killed for a slight, perhaps for a theft committed right in Catello Marino's house. 'The reality is unfortunately this. We are surrounded by ruthless murderers who do not hesitate to shoot and kill in the street, and they do it even during the day, even among the crowd,' commented deputy Borrelli, who recalls the innocent victims of crime who 'are not killed by mistake: for these people, they are just collateral damage. The real mistake is continuing to tolerate these ruthless criminals.'